Experts sound alarm over disaster planning

Source(s): Viet Nam News, Vietnam News Agency

The explosive growth of urban areas is resulting in greater damage and more deaths from natural disasters than ever before, experts have warned, calling for better planning and safer housing.

Cities now account for half the world's population and are growing faster than their populations can be counted, they said on Thursday, making them particularly vulnerable to earthquakes, floods and other disasters, especially in poor countries.

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Illustrating the challenges, Haiti still has half a million people living in squalid tent cities nearly two years after a devastating earthquake that killed more than 225,000 people.

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In the past five years alone, more than 14 million people lost their homes to natural disasters. That can mean more than losing a shelter, said Habitat for Humanity chief executive Jonathan Reckford.

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