Natural Disasters
A natural disaster is a major adverse event resulting from natural processes of the Earth; examples include floods, hurricanes, tornadoes, volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, tsunamis, storms, and other geologic processes. A natural disaster can cause loss of life or damage property, and typically leaves some economic damage in its wake, the severity of which depends on the affected population's resilience and on the infrastructure available.In modern times, the divide between natural, man-made and man-accelerated is quite difficult to draw with human choices like architecture, fire, resource management or even climate change potentially playing a role. An adverse event will not rise …
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PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 1 May 2024 English
This report was published in May 2024 by Access Now for the #KeepItOn campaign which promotes the end of internet shutdowns. The report is authored by Zach Rosson, Felicia Anthonio, …
exams 15 Shutdowns during natural disasters 15 III. New and continuing … trigger in 2023: Natural disasters 4 shutdowns in 4 countries during natural disasters 8 SHRINKING DEMOCRACY … shutdowns in 2023, and shutdowns intersecting with natural disasters surfaced as a concerning new trend. As people … o implement blocks.52 Shutdowns during natural disasters In an alarming new development, we saw … Libya, Myanmar, Türkiye) coincide with natural disasters in 2023. Rising global surface temperatures and shifts …
PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 8 August 2023 English
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) released this 92-page Climate Dictionary on August 8, 2023. It provides simple and concise definitions for 40 climate-related terms frequently in use.Subtitled ‘Speak climate …
climate change like weather extremes and natural disasters, sea-level rise, biodiversity loss, or food … planet’s climate, including weather extremes and natural disasters, ocean acidification and sea-level rise, loss …
PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 17 April 2023 English
The Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation, Government of India, released the first volume of the EnviStats – India 2023 on April 17, 2023. The EnviStats were first published in …
the North Indian Ocean Statement 4.04 Major natural disasters in India Statement 4.05 Major earthquakes … provides essential statistics related to natural disasters and extreme weather events, such as earthquakes …
PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 1 April 2023
The State of the World’s Children is an annual report published by the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) since the year 1980. Each edition aims to promote awareness on key …
of conflict, major disease outbreaks and natural disasters.11 The COVID-19 pandemic was no exception …
PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 1 April 2023 English
This report was published by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) in April 2023. It is the seventh edition of UNODC’s biennial Global Report on Trafficking in …
human trafcking in com- munities afected by natural disasters and elaborates on how trafcking in persons …
PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 30 January 2023 English
The World Inequality Lab, a research organisation based in Paris, released this report on January 30, 2023. It was authored by Lucas Chancel and Philipp Bothe from the Paris School …
reduces the capacity to adapt and react to natural disasters thus making the overlap between poverty and …
PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 16 January 2023 English
The International Labour Office of the International Labour Organization (ILO), Geneva, released this report on January 16, 2023. Written by Daniel Samaan, Ekkehard Ernst, Miguel Sanchez Martinez, Richard Horne and …
is contributing to a higher incidence of natural disasters and extreme weather events, including flooding …
PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 2 November 2022 English
The Chilling: A global study of online violence against women journalists was published by the International Center for Journalists, United States on November 2, 2022. The report studies gender-based online …
associated with extreme weather events, disease, natural disasters, and war, such as: “torrential”, "epidemic" …
PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 1 November 2022 English
Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung, the Berlin-based institute engaged in political education, published the Atlas of Migration in November 2022. This report, the second in the series, aims to change global perceptions …
regarded as “foreign”. 2 People flee war and natural disasters, or move so they can work and live in another … violence. Another 23.7 million were fleeing natural disasters such as floods, storms and earthquakes. Many … to gradual environmental shifts or sudden natural disasters. The majority of the people dis- placed in … can be expected to grow further. Victims of natural disasters can often return quicklyto their homes. But … AND QUICKLY FORGOTTEN People displaced by natural disasters compared to those displaced by wars and conflict …
PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 5 October 2022 English
The Lancet published this 7th edition of their report on health and climate change on October 25, 2022. An international and multidisciplinary collaboration of around 100 contributors, the report evaluates …
with sustainable low-energy cooling Of all natural disasters, heatwaves cause the most deaths,178 with …
