"disaster losses" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to losses and/or damages caused by a disaster, such as a natural disaster or industrial disaster. Example sentence: The insurance company covered the disaster losses caused by the tornado.
Less than 5% of disaster losses in Asia are insured compared with 40% in developed countries, a recent ADB study said, although disaster losses are expanding at a faster pace in Asia due to environmental degradation and demographic pressures.
That made the last several months of 2008 a financial disaster — losses doubled as sales fell by a third.
The study, entitled Creating shared value: the business case for disaster risk reduction, reviewed disaster losses in 56 countries.
Let's get the public- and private-sectors to the table to talk strategically about how they can continue to work together to reduce disaster losses in this country.
Lloyd's of London insurer Amlin expects to return to profit this year after £500m of natural disaster losses pushed it deep into the red last year.
Amlin said its major catastrophe claims were mainly the result of earthquakes, and for the first time it suffered record disaster losses mainly from outside the US.
"I have never heard anyone speculate that they think disaster losses will start going down in the near, mid- or far distant future".
This suggests that these types of technological improvements may have a significant effect on reducing disaster losses – an effect Pielke fails to account for.
Roger Pielke, Jr., credited the report authors for avoiding injections of spin — with one seeming exception: There was one interesting change related to the statement on the state of attribution with respect to normalized disaster losses.
Increases in population density and in the value of property at risk, rather than changes in the climate, are the likeliest explanation for rising disaster losses in many countries, the report said.
Next month, America's National Research Council will publish a report, "Reducing Disaster Losses Through Better Information", calling for the creation of an international disaster information network, to ensure that emergency managers have as much information as possible at their fingertips.
