Is your business disaster proof?Source(s): GH; UNISDR Publication date: 2013 Number of pages: 4 p. This brochure introduces ways for businesses to build resilience to disasters. Highlighting the negative impacts of catastrophic events on businesses and the clear and present dangers threatening them... http://www.preventionweb.net/go/30674 |
Evidence, monthly UNISDR newsletter: issue 05, February 2012Source(s): UNISDR Publication date: 2012 Number of pages: 4 p. This monthly newsletter highlights UNISDR activities around the world. This issue reports on: (i) the two-day post-mortem on Typhoon Sendong in the Philippines leading to the Mindanao Declaration on D... http://www.preventionweb.net/go/25350 |
Lloyd's global underinsurance reportSource(s): Lloyd's Publication date: 2012 Number of pages: 90 p. This report analyses five natural catastrophes in order to examine the role of non-life insurance in reducing costs to the taxpayer and increasing the speed of recovery, both in terms of economic acti... http://www.preventionweb.net/go/29838 |
Natural catastrophes and man-made disasters in 2011: historic losses surface from record earthquakes and floodsSource(s): Swiss Re Publication date: 2012 Number of pages: 40 p. Sigma 2/2012: This study reports on the worldwide economic losses from over 300 natural catastrophes and man-made disasters recorded in 2011 and the cost to the global insurance industry. It speci... http://www.preventionweb.net/go/25989 |
Topics Geo natural catastrophes 2011: analyses, assessments, positionsSource(s): Munich Re Publication date: 2012 Number of pages: 56 p. This issue reports on the most catastrophic events of 2011, which has been the most expensive natural disaster year to date with economic losses amounting to some US$ 380bn. It focuses on the 11 March... http://www.preventionweb.net/go/25635 |
WMO statement on the status of the global climate in 2011Source(s): WMO Publication date: 2012 Number of pages: 19 p. This issue of WMO annual survey on weather and climate change provides evidence that 2011 had the highest global mean surface temperature levels in a La NiƱa year. Highlighting a number of climate ex... http://www.preventionweb.net/go/25884 |