Abstract
It is well established that development impacts on disaster outcomes and our coping with extreme and uncertain natural hazards. Evidence includes through data available from the annual Human Development Reports of the United Nations Development Programme and the World Disasters Reports of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent (IFRC). The data shows that whilst deaths are generally highest in countries with low human development indices, numbers affected are significantly higher in those with medium development indices. Economic damage is highest in those with high development indices. This also indicates how relationships between disaster and development are prone to varying categorisations of human progress and types of crises.
Highlights
It is well established that development impacts on disaster outcomes and our coping with extreme and uncertain natural hazards
Evidence includes through data available from the annual Human Development Reports of the United Nations Development Programme and the World Disasters Reports of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent (IFRC)
Articulation of ‘development disaster’ is from time to time renewed via global forums expressing objectives of sustainability, such as the Rio+20 United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development in June, 2012
Summary
More details/abstract: It is well established that development impacts on disaster outcomes and our coping with extreme and uncertain natural hazards. Collins* Disaster and Development Centre (DDC), Department of Geography and Environment, Northumbria University, UK It is well established that development impacts on disaster outcomes and our coping with extreme and uncertain natural hazards.
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