Some hazard related websites to aid your research! Thanks Dr Hitch for these! Miss M.
Great UNEP graphic http://maps.grida.no/go/graphic/typology_of_hazards
Building Design: http://www.unisdr.org/eng/about_isdr/isdr-publications/joint-pub/Handbook26-03-07.pdf[/UR L]
Disaster Statistics: [URL=http://www.unisdr.org/disaster-statistics/introduction.htm]http://www.unisdr.org/disaster-statistics/introduction.htm
Disaster Trends pdf: http://www.unisdr.org/disaster-statistics/pdf/isdr-disaster-statistics-occurrence.pdf[/UR L]
Disaster Statistics - Impacts: [URL=http://www.unisdr.org/disaster-statistics/pdf/isdr-disaster-statistics-impact.pdf]http://www.unisdr.org/disaster-statistics/pdf/isdr-disaster-statistics-impact.pdf
Economic Disaster Statistics - Top 50 countries: http://www.unisdr.org/disaster-statistics/pdf/isdr-disaster-statistics-50top-countri es.pdf
2005 Disasters in numbers: http://www.unisdr.org/disaster-statistics/pdf/2005-disaster-in-numbers.pdf
Far from light hearted is the http://www.cred.be/ site which has a "Disasters of the week" section !
Relief Web covers a very wide variety of disasters from natural to humanitarian and also provides excellent maps of population movements. A useful site for those looking for refugee data recently.
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/doc106?OpenForm
Worried about the "credit crunch" it won't seem quite as bad when you have looked at this ! http://maps.grida.no/go/graphic/fifty-million-climate-refugees-by-2010
Welcome back! Here you will find links to relevant wider reading...enjoy! Miss M.
