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Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction 2013
From Shared Risk to Shared Value: the Business Case for Disaster Risk Reduction |
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Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction 2013
From Shared Risk to Shared Value: the Business Case for Disaster Risk Reduction |
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relative exposure. Maldives has over 30 percent of its produced capital stock exposed, followed by the Solomon Islands with over 25 percent; Oman with 9.5 percent; and Hong Kong (Special Administrative Region of China) with about 5 percent.
Although tsunami exposure is not the same as tsunami risk, in the case of extremely destructive 500 year return period tsunamis, exposure is probably a good guide to risk, as vulnerability tends to become binary—assets that are exposed are at risk and those that are not exposed are not.
Of particular concern is the location of critical facilities, including nuclear power plants and airports, in areas exposed to destructive tsunamis. xi In the United States of America, a total of 13 nuclear power plants are either in or close to areas exposed to tsunamis; in China, Japan and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, the numbers of such plants are 12, 10 and 7, respectively. However, nuclear facilities are subject to rigorous local risk assessments and thus likely to have countermeasures in place to reduce risk.
(Source: GAR global risk model)
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