GAR 2015 Main Report

Part I - Chapter 4

(Source: UNISDR with data from national loss databases.)

Figure 4.8 Reported damage from extensive disasters to housing, education and health facilities, and agricultural production (65 countries, 2 states)

4.2 Undermining development

capacities and gains

Losses from extensive disasters are responsible for most disaster morbidity and displacement, and represent an ongoing erosion of development assets. This presents a particular challenge to the achievement of development goals in areas and regions that already experience social inequality and exclusion.

Extensive risk particularly challenges the achievement of development goals in areas and regions already characterized by social inequality and exclusion. The deficit of infrastructure in these areas is already an underlying driver of vulnerability and disaster risk and weakens resilience. The loss of this infrastructure in

disasters further aggravates the situation, generating a vicious cycle. For example, a deficit of primary health facilities increases the vulnerability of low-income households that suffer flooding. Households with poor health are likely to be less resilient to disaster loss, and the damage or destruction of those facilities in disasters further compounds the problem.

The economic value of these social assets is significant. While the economic losses from intensive disasters are usually evaluated by governments or international organizations and insured losses are assessed by the insurance industry, the economic cost of extensive risk is largely unaccounted for and ultimately reabsorbed into poverty. Estimates of the cost of those unreported disasters highlight a growing and largely unknown

	96 Part I - Chapter 4 (Source: UNISDR with data from national loss databases.) Figure 4.8 Reported damage from extensive disasters to housing, education and health facilities, and agricultural production (65 countries, 2 states) 4.2 Undermining development capacities and gains Losses from extensive disasters are responsible for most disaster morbidity and displacement, and represent an ongoing erosion of development assets. This presents a particular challenge to the achievement of development goals in areas and regions that already experience social inequality and exclusion. Extensive risk particularly challenges the achievement of development goals in areas and regions already characterized by social inequality and exclusion. The deficit of infrastructure in these areas is already an underlying driver of vulnerability and disaster risk and weakens resilience. The loss of this infrastructure in disasters further aggravates the situation, generating a vicious cycle. For example, a deficit of primary health facilities increases the vulnerability of low-income households that suffer flooding. Households with poor health are likely to be less resilient to disaster loss, and the damage or destruction of those facilities in disasters further compounds the problem. The economic value of these social assets is significant. While the economic losses from intensive disasters are usually evaluated by governments or international organizations and insured losses are assessed by the insurance industry, the economic cost of extensive risk is largely unaccounted for and ultimately reabsorbed into poverty. Estimates of the cost of those unreported disasters highlight a growing and largely unknown	Page 1 Page 10 Page 20 Page 30 Page 40 Page 50 Page 60 Page 70 Page 80 Page 86 Page 87 Page 88 Page 89 Page 90 Page 91 Page 92 Page 93 Page 94 Page 95 Page 96 Page 97 ->Page 98 Page 99 Page 100 Page 101 Page 102 Page 103 Page 104 Page 105 Page 106 Page 107 Page 108 Page 109 Page 110 Page 120 Page 130 Page 140 Page 150 Page 160 Page 170 Page 180 Page 190 Page 200 Page 210 Page 220 Page 230 Page 240 Page 250 Page 260 Page 270 Page 280 Page 290 Page 300 Page 310