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Comparative Emergency Management. Session 6 Slide Deck. Session Objectives. Define disaster trends, and explain how the research of international disaster trends provides significant value to the understanding of international risk.
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Comparative Emergency Management Session 6 Slide Deck Session 6
Session Objectives • Define disaster trends, and explain how the research of international disaster trends provides significant value to the understanding of international risk. • Discuss five major trends that provide insight into how hazard risk and the occurrence of disasters are affecting the international community. Session 6
Disaster Trends • Indicators • Provide clues • Help with decisions about: • Planning • Analysis • Prioritization • Provide: • Greater visualization of changes in likelihood or consequence Session 6
Disaster Trends • More disasters occurring • Disasters occurring with greater intensity • More people are affected • Disasters becoming less deadly • Greater financial impact • Poor countries receiving greatest impact Session 6
Disaster Trends • Tell us: • What changes are occurring • Do not tell us: • Why changes are occurring • Driving forces behind trends can reverse, thereby reversing the trend Session 6
Disaster Trends Hurricane Deaths in the United States, 1900-2008 Session 6
Disaster Trends 1: The number of people affected by disasters worldwide is rising Session 6
Disaster Trends 1: The number of people affected by disasters worldwide is rising 5.7 Billion 45% Urban 2020 8.3 Billion 60% Urban 2.5 Billion 30% Urban Session 6
Disaster Trends 2: The number of people killed in disasters worldwide has fallen… Session 6
Disaster Trends Trend #2 may be reversing Session 6
Disaster Trends 3: Disasters are becoming more costly BUT… Session 6
Disaster Trends Thousands of people, 1991-2000 4: Poor countries disproportionately affected by disaster casualties… Session 6
Disaster Trends The Wealthy countries take the brunt of disaster financial losses US$ billions (2000 prices),1991-2000 Session 6
Disaster Trends 5: The number of natural disaster events is increasing Session 6
Disaster Trends The number of technological disaster events is also rising Session 6