United Nations Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction (GAR 2011)

  Available online: http://www.preventionweb.net/english/hyogo/gar/2011/en/home/download.html

The 2011 Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction was prepared while disasters have continued to wipe out the lives and livelihoods of millions. The impacts of the catastrophic earthquake in Haiti in January 2010 and floods in Pakistan in July 2010 show how disaster risk and poverty are closely interlinked. Meanwhile, in 2011, floods in Australia, the earthquake in Christchurch, New Zealand, and the earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster wreaking havoc in north-eastern Japan as this report goes to press are a stark reminder that developed countries are also very exposed. Less visible internationally, hundreds of smaller disasters associated with climate variability have caused enormous damage in Benin, Brazil, Colombia, the Philippines and other countries. These events reveal how risks are continuously constructed through existing development gaps and growth in economic and population exposure. Moreover, as the Japan disaster highlighted, there are emerging risks and new vulnerabilities associated with the complexity and interdependency of the technological systems on which modern societies depend.

This second edition of the United Nations Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction provides a current resource for understanding and analysing global disaster risk. Drawing on a large volume of new and enhanced data, it explores trends and patterns in disaster risk globally, regionally and nationally. In parallel, more than 130 governments are engaged in self-assessments of their progress in implementing the Hyogo Framework for Action (HFA), contributing to what is now the most complete global overview of national efforts to reduce disaster risk.

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Translated under the title

 Réduction des risques de catastrophe: Bilan mondial (GAR 2011) (2011)  

 Informe de evaluación global sobre la reducción del riesgo de desastres (GAR 2011) : revelar el riesgo, replantear el desarrollo (2011)  

 تقرير التقييم العاملي بشأن احلد من خماطر الكوارث لعام2011 :الكشف عن املخاطر وإعادة تعريف التنمية (2011)