Objectives

• Help focus international attention on the problem of disaster risk and to consolidate political and economic support and commitment to disaster risk reduction;
• More accurate characterization of global mortality and economic loss risk for natural hazards such as floods, earth­quakes, tropical cyclones and landslides;
• Identification of key risk drivers initial characterization of economic resilience;
• Evaluation of risk trends, to see if hazards, exposure and vulnerability changes lead to a decrease or an increase of risk;
• Provide access to all information and data through interactive web application (PREVIEW Global Risk Data Plat­form).

 Main activities

• Identify hazards distribution for seven hazards (tropical cyclones, floods, earthquakes, drought, landslides, tsunami and biomass fires;
• Computation of human and economical exposure for all hazards (except biomass fires);
• Vulnerabiilty analysis (identification of risk drivers);
• Spatial risk modelling;
• Indexing risk (Mortality Risk Index).

 Outcomes

• Report (chapter 2 and related annexes of the 2009 Global Assessment Report);
• Maps, graphs and statistics;
• On-line interactive application (full SDI) PREVIEW Global Risk Data Platform. The platform can be accessed through different websites of our partners.