Because of what it called a "sharp increase" in the number of disasters in the past few years, the group is beginning to develop another leg of its operations: preparation.
"The rising trend in the number of disasters over the past five years shows no sign of slowing down," said Gareth Owen, humanitarian director at Save the Children UK. "Year on year, we are responding more frequently and on a larger scale to increasing numbers of disasters".
(DE) Mr President, Commissioner Hahn, we are very well aware of the factors that have led to an increase in the number of disasters in recent years: we know about climate change, the explosive industrialisation in developing countries and the growing world population, among other things.
At the global scale, consequences also point toward a trend in which the number of disasters has increased, whereas the number of fatalities is decreasing, but the number of affected people and economic losses are increasing to a major extent.
Phase III witnessed considerable increase in the number of disaster management policies.
Apart from the obvious political aspects, and the fact that Katrina had a substantially bigger impact on both the number of people and size of area affected, California is unique in America in terms of the number of "disasters" that occur within the state each year literally thousands of wildfires, as well as small earthquakes, mudslides, etc.
But this follows a big rise in the 1990s with the number of disasters reported annually significantly higher at the end of the period 1994-2013 that athehe start.
In any case, given the number of disasters that have struck the village over the years, the special effects departments will already have quite a lot on: what with the spectacular plane crashes, floods and explosions.
Past records and reports indicate that at least 40 GLOF disasters have occurred in the middle-eastern Chinese Himalaya and Nyainqêntanglha range since 1935 (Wang and Zhang 2013)—mainly in the 1960s, 1980s, 1990s, and 2000s (the number of disasters in these periods reached 7, 9, 5, and 10 times respectively, accounting for more than three quarters of the total).
Bekele Geleta of the IFRC admits the number of disasters in 2012 was also amongst the lowest in several years, but argues that technology played a significant role in reducing the human toll – specifically ownership of phones, linked to weather prediction, satellite imagery and mass alert systems.
Here's an excerpt: While tallying up the number of disasters in a given year may seem pretty straightforward, in practice it's not.
