Monday 8 December 2008

Hazards Year 13 January 2009

Building Design: http://www.unisdr.org/eng/about_isdr/isdr-publications/joint-pub/Handbook26-03-07.pdf

Disaster Statistics: http://www.unisdr.org/disaster-statistics/introduction.htm

Disaster Trends pdf: http://www.unisdr.org/disaster-statistics/pdf/isdr-disaster-statistics-occurrence.pdf

Disaster Statistics - Impacts: http://www.unisdr.org/disaster-statistics/pdf/isdr-disaster-statistics-impact.pdf

Economic Disaster Statistics - Top 50 countries: http://www.unisdr.org/disaster-statistics/pdf/isdr-disaster-statistics-50top-countries.pdf

2005 Disasters in numbers: http://www.unisdr.org/disaster-statistics/pdf/2005-disaster-in-numbers.pdf

http://www.cred.be/ site which has a "Disasters of the week" section !

Relief Web covers a very wide variety of disasters from natural to humanitarian and also provides excellent maps of population movements. A useful site for those looking for refugee data recently.
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/doc106?OpenForm

Stop Disasters

Urban change for rural China

The rural White Horse Village

Deep in Wuxi County in the west of China, a sleepy village is undergoing radical change - a symbol of China's economic revolution.

BBC NEWS Programmes Newsnight Urban change for rural China