18 Apr 2013, UN-HABITAT
Working through partnerships with stakeholders including international agencies such as UNISDR, academic and research institutes, private sector actors, and NGOs, the City Resilience Profiling Programme will develop a comprehensive and integrated urban planning and management approach for profiling and monitoring the resilience of any city, to all plausible hazards...
| Disaster | Date | Affected | (no. of people) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Storm | 1992 | 104,075 | |
| Flood | 2003 | 17,000 | |
| Flood | 1987 | 1,500 | |
| Storm | 2002 | 500 | |
| Wildfire | 2007 | 15 | |
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Source of data: OFDA/CRED International Disaster Database Data version: v11.08 *: Including tsunami Data displayed does not imply national endorsement. |
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