WMO atlas of mortality and economic losses from weather, climate and water extremes (1970–2019)

The Atlas is WMO’s most exhaustive compilation to date of fatalities and economic costs from natural hazards. It provides comprehensive details of recorded disasters and their impacts, both at global and regional level. It gives statistics for the entire 50-year period, as well as a decadal breakdown which shows the evolution of disasters in our changing climate. The Atlas is a multi-agency collaboration, with contributions from many partners including the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) and the World Health Organization (WHO). Statistics are from the Emergency Events Database (EM-DAT) maintained by the Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED).
Acknowledgements -- Foreword -- Background and methodology -- About the World Meteorological Organization -- Disaster-event attribution to natural hazards and climate change -- Status of mortality and economic losses due to weather-, climate- and water-related hazards from 1970 to 2019 -- Focus on tropical cyclones -- Role and potential of disaster loss databases -- Mortality and morbidity - perspectives from the health sector -- References and bibliography -- Annex 1. About the Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters -- Annex 2. About global disaster loss and damage databases and the Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters Emergency Events Database -- Annex 3. List of WMO region and corresponding countries and territories as listed in EM-DAT -- Annex 4. Country classification by the United Nations and the World Bank.

89 p. : ill., graphs, maps, tables

Includes bibliographical references (p. 76-77).

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