The crises of natural disasters, of human greed and power, and of seven billion individuals foraging at break neck pace through the bounties of our planet's ever shrinking resources is urging us to do more.
As a result, the new structural standards reduced the impact of the disaster on human health and wellbeing (19).
Within this complicated context, Medecins Sans Frontieres, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1999, is actively trying to assess the impact of the environmental disaster on human health to help the people who live in the Aral Sea area cope with their environment.
The ultimate goal of disaster health management is to reduce the impact of disasters on human health and wellbeing by providing urgent health interventions and ongoing health care during and after disasters (4, 5).
The consequences of disasters on human health and well-being are varied and include direct impacts on lives and livelihood sustainability and indirect impacts on macroeconomic growth and social support mechanisms (Schipper and Pelling 2006).
These policy statements demonstrate how, over the years, UNISDR annual reports have had an increasing focus on health-related issues because of the growing concerns expressed by many stakeholders about the devastating effects of disasters on human health and well-being.
Their former leader Gary King (Pegg) is a disaster of a human, desperately trying to relive the past.
To achieve these aims, an accurate and quantitative measurement is required to understand the impacts of natural disasters on human society, to study the vulnerability of different societies to such disasters, and to frame new and appropriate disaster reduction policies.
Failure to do so, said Bergkamp, would condemn the cities of the future to disease and poverty – "if we don't make them into viable, thriving areas of growth and economic prosperity, they basically become disaster zones in terms of human disaster and wasted opportunity".
By this standard, the war on terror has been far less of an American disaster for human rights than the Vietnam War or the Second World War.
