Assessing global exposure and vulnerability towards natural hazards: the Disaster Risk Index
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 the evolut...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Copernicus Publications
2009-07-01
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| Series: | Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences |
| Online Access: | http://www.nat-hazards-earth-syst-sci.net/9/1149/2009/nhess-9-1149-2009.pdf |