Assessing global exposure and vulnerability towards natural hazards: the Disaster Risk Index

Peduzzi, Pascal; Dao, Hy; Herold, Christian; Mouton, Frédéric

doi:10.5194/nhess-9-1149-2009

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Assessing global exposure and vulnerability towards natural hazards: the Disaster Risk Index

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Authors:

Pascal Peduzzi

Hy Dao

Christian Herold

Abstract

Abstract. This paper presents a model of factors influencing levels of human losses from natural hazards at the global scale, for the period 1980–2000. This model was designed for the United Nations Development Programme as a building stone of the Disaster Risk Index (DRI), which aims at monitoring ...

Subject

Vulnerability (computing)

Natural hazard

Natural disaster

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