At the same time, delegates claimed, poorly managed development can in itself exacerbate disaster risk.
Local incompetence exacerbated the disaster: in Orleans Parish, for instance, where 60,000 households do not own a car, hundreds of city buses which might have shipped out stranded people were left to be swamped by the rising waters.Still, Washington is mostly at fault.
Critics allege that emergency services mismanagement and lax regulations on private landowners have greatly exacerbated the disaster.
This is particularly critical in developing settings, where existing HRH shortages, issues affecting social determinants of mental health and wellbeing may be exacerbated by disaster impacts [ 53, 54].
The erosion of institutions, population displacement, and the loss of livelihoods in ongoing conflicts in Somalia, South Sudan, Democratic Republic of Congo, Nigeria, Niger, and Mali, for example, all exacerbated the disasters that did occur.
Children typically represent 50 to 60 per cent of those affected by disasters, whether through loss of life or from diseases related to malnutrition and poor water and sanitation conditions that are exacerbated by disasters.
Logging, which deprives river banks of water-absorbing tree cover, was blamed for exacerbating the disaster.
Even as Trump stood in awe of the damage unleashed by Harvey this week: ("Nobody has ever seen this much water... The water has never been seen like this, to this extent," he told a crowd in Texas) he is unlikely to vocalize the role that climate change played in exacerbating this disaster.
The impacts of weather and climate-related disasters are increasing, and climate change can exacerbate many disasters.
In an emotionally charged day that followed Egypt's worst-ever sporting disaster, exacerbated by charges that security forces stood by and allowed rival fans to clash, nearly 10,000 gathered in Tahrir Square and outside the Interior Ministry, with some ripping down barbed wire around the building.
