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13 November 2010
Natural Hazards and UnNatural Disasters – the Economics of Effective Prevention
A report has just been released by the World Bank and the United Nations on the ecoonomics of disaster risk reduction. This post briefly reflects upon the key findings of this influential document.
14 October 2010
Some statistics on disasters worldwide
Yesterday was the annual United Nations International Day for Disaster Reduction, which this year had a strong urban theme. To highlight the event, which has been somewhat overshadowed by the extraordinary rescue of the Chilean miners, UNISDR put out a press release highlighting the costs of disasters worldwide. The statistics are somewhat sobering: So far in 2010 more than 236,000 people have been killed in disasters 256 million people have …
17 May 2009
Landslides and the UN’s Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction
The UN ISDR is today launching with a great fanfare the first Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction. This report “provides hard-hitting evidence to demonstrate how, where and why disaster risk is increasing globally and presents key findings from a global analysis of disaster risk patterns and trends, including where high mortality and economic loss is concentrated. .” The report is online now and can be downloaded here. I …
Landslides and the UN's Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction
The UN ISDR is today launching with a great fanfare the first Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction. This report “provides hard-hitting evidence to demonstrate how, where and why disaster risk is increasing globally and presents key findings from a global analysis of disaster risk patterns and trends, including where high mortality and economic loss is concentrated. .” The report is online now and can be downloaded here. I …
8 October 2008
8th October 2008 – two important dates
The third anniversary of the Kashmir EarthquakeToday is the third anniversary of the Kashmir earthquake disaster, in which over 79,000 people were killed. Of these, about a third (i.e. about 26,000) were killed either directly or indirectly by landslides. To mark the occasion, the images below, which I took in January 2006, show some of the slope failures that occurred. Whilst Pakistan has undoubtedly put a great deal of effort …
Dave Petley is the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Hull in the United Kingdom. His blog provides commentary and analysis of landslide events occurring worldwide, including the landslides themselves, latest research, and conferences and meetings.
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