Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction 2015
Making development sustainable: The future of disaster risk management


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Part III - Chapter 11
Notes
1 Accessed 11 January 2015.
2
The definition of “urban” varies according to context. For more information on the characteristics of urbanization in Africa, see Henderson et al., 2013

Henderson, J. Vernon, Mark Roberts and Adam Storeygard. 2013,Is Urbanization in Sub-Saharan Africa Different? Policy Research Working Paper 6481, The World Bank Development Research Group, Environment and Energy Team. June 2013. The World Bank, Washington, D.C.. .
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3
http://www.ted.com/talks/paul_romer.
4
However, one should note that the percentage of people living in informal settlements has declined over the same time period in all regions apart from West Asia (ibid.).
5
http://www.un.org/millenniumgoals/environ.shtml.
6
http://research.dyn.com/2012/10/hurricane-sandy-initialimpact/ (accessed 8 December 2014).
7
Total number of online and offline local government reports submitted using the Local HFA Monitor as of October 2014.
8
http://www.sidra.ibge.gov.br/bda/tabela/listabl. asp?z=cd&o=20&i=P&c=4012 (accessed 15 December 2014).
9
Source: http://www.mi.gov.br/pt/c/document_library/get_file? uuid=74dde46c-544a-4bc4-a6e1-852d4c09be06&groupId=10157 (accessed 15 December 2014).
10
Personal communication, Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation, Government of Brazil.
11
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Fifth Assessment Report, Working Group III, 2014.
12
The “consuming class” is defined as the share of the population with disposable income of more than US$10 per day or US$3,600 per annum (at 2005 ppp).
13
“Quality” has at least two broad meanings here: i) a legal meaning focused on the functional effectiveness of the law in delivering policy objectives and ii) a technical meaning that considers the relevance of the technical standards established by law.
14
Joan Clos, Executive Director of UN-Habitat, at the opening of the 6th World Urban Forum in Naples, Italy, 3 September 2012: http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=42795 (accessed 11 January 2015).
15
http://www.iadb.org/en/topics/citizen-security/impactmedellin,5687.html (accessed 11 January 2015).
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