The November 2009 newsletter from the Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED) provides a balanced perspective on disaster data from the first semester of 2009.
Although global disaster impact figures in the first half of the year 2009 appeared relatively low compared to the 1999-2008 yearly average, many countries, mostly in Asia and South America, suffered major losses. [...]The first half of 2009 underlines societies’ vulnerability to climate-related and geophysical disasters. A long road remains to better protect the vulnerable and developing societies.
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