Showing posts with label Disasters. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Disasters. Show all posts

Thursday, September 4, 2014

Atlas of Mortality and Economic Losses from Weather, Climate, and Water Extremes (1970-2012)

With the limits that these large scale project have, which is neglecting most of the micro-phenomena, as small landslides, that causes huge economical losses, and several life losses, this is, however, a reference to keep in mind when talking about climate related hazards.

It was produced by WMO and it is available here. As it reports in introduction:
"Weather, climate and water-related disasters are on the rise worldwide, causing loss of life and setting back economic and social development by years, if not decades. From 1970 to 2012, 8 835 disasters, 1.94 million deaths, and US$ 2.4 trillion of economic losses were reported globally as a result of hazards such as droughts, extreme temperatures, floods, tropical cyclones and related health epidemics, according to a new report."