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Displaying 2 of about 2 resultsThis issue focuses on urban resilience and looks at recent occurrences of weather-related events causing widespread devastation and misery, including floods, typhoons and wildfires in Australia, severe winter weather in Colombia, snowstorms in Estonia and Scotland, hundreds of people and thousands of buildings lost to flash floods and mudslides in Brazi…
The World Risk Index has classified Vanuatu, Tonga, the Philippines, the Solomon Islands and Guatemala as the most at risk of disasters according to AlertNet.
Peter Mucke, managing director of Alliance Development Works, declares that 'The World Risk Report shows the need to focus in the future more on disaster risk reduction than just on humanitarian…