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"Pioneering Disaster Risk Index (DRI) Tool". United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). Archived from the original on 2014-06-18. Provides key information on all countries in the world. "World's Worst Natural Disasters" Includes list of world's deadliest disasters in history.
Societal vulnerability is divided into susceptibility to extreme natural events, lack of coping capacities, and lack of adaptive capacities. All index components are scaled to the value range from 0 to 100. The higher a country's index score on the WorldRiskIndex, the higher its national disaster risk.
List of countries by natural disaster risk; Climate Change Performance Index (CCPI) Environmental Performance Index (EPI) Environmental Sustainability Index (ESI) Environmental Vulnerability Index (EVI) Happy Planet Index (HPI) List of countries by ecological footprint; Sustainable Society Index (SSI) The Global 100 (G100) List of countries by ...
The Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction (GAR) is the United Nation’s biennial global review and analysis of the natural hazards that are affecting humanity. The GAR monitors risk patterns and trends and progress in disaster risk reduction while providing strategic policy guidance to countries and the international community.
List of countries by natural disaster risk; Lists of ecoregions by country; List of environmental laws by country; List of nuclear and radiation fatalities by country; List of nuclear power accidents by country; List of water supply and sanitation by country; Electric car use by country. Government incentives for plug-in electric vehicles
Natural disasters in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (1 C, 2 P) Natural disasters in Samoa (2 C, 4 P) Natural disasters in Saudi Arabia (1 C, 7 P)
The Environmental Vulnerability Index (EVI) is a measurement devised by the South Pacific Applied Geoscience Commission (SOPAC), the United Nations Environment Program and others [1] to characterize the relative severity of various types of environmental issues suffered by 243 enumerated individual nations and other geographies (such as ...
A natural disaster is a sudden event that causes widespread destruction, major collateral damage, or loss of life, brought about by forces other than the acts of human beings. A natural disaster might be caused by earthquakes, flooding, volcanic eruption, landslide, hurricanes, etc.