ADSR 2010

WHOM collaborating

Centre for Exploration on

the Epidemiology of

Disasters -- CRED

Annual Disaster

Statistical Review 2010

The numbers and tendencies

Debby Guha-Sapir, Femke Ces, Regina Beneath

with Sylvain Ponserre

Gross annual Disaster

Statistical Review 2010

The amounts and trends

Debby Guha-Sapir

Femke Ces

Regina Under

with

Sylvain Ponserre (UNISDR)

Centre intended for Research within the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED)

Université catholique de Louvain – Brussels, Belgium

Acknowledgements

The data where this survey is based are maintained through the long-term support of the US Agency pertaining to International Development's Office of Foreign Catastrophe Assistance (USAID/OFDA). We would like to thank UNISDR for providing the Thematic Frames. Were grateful to David Hargitt (CRED) pertaining to proofreading and Alexander DГ­az (CRED) to get design and layout.

We encourage the free utilization of the material of this record with appropriate and complete citation: " Guha-Sapir Deb, Vos Farreneheit, Below Ur, with Ponserre S. Gross annual Disaster Statistical Review 2010: The Amounts and Tendencies. Brussels: CRED; 2011. ”

This record is available in http://www.cred.be/sites/default/files/ADSR_2010.pdf.

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ii Gross annual Disaster Statistical Review 2010 – The numbers and trends

Regarding CRED

The Centre intended for Research within the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED) has been effective for more than more than 30 years in the fields of worldwide disaster and conflict wellness studies, with research and training activities linking relief, rehabilitation and development. It had been established in Brussels in 1973 on the School of Public Health with the Catholic College or university of Louvain (UCL) as being a non-profit organization with worldwide status below Belgian legislation. In 80, CRED became a World Overall health Organization (WHO) collaborating centre as part of Having Global Plan for Unexpected emergency Preparedness and Response. Since then, CRED has grown its intercontinental network considerably and works closely with numerous EL agencies, inter-governmental and governmental institutions, non–governmental organizations, research institutes and universities.

Goal

The Middle promotes analysis and provides an evidence bottom to the intercontinental community within the burden of disease and related health issues because of disasters and conflicts, to be able to improve preparedness and reactions to these education emergencies. CRED trains discipline managers, learners, relief personnel and health care professionals in the administration of short and long-term humanitarian emergencies.

CRED's emphasis

CRED's exploration focuses on almost all humanitarian and emergency circumstances with a major impact on individual health. For instance , all types of normal and human-made disasters, just like earthquakes, massive amounts and storms; longer-term disasters such as famines and droughts; and scenarios creating mass displacement of people such as detrimental strife and conflicts. The Centre is targeted on health elements and the responsibility of disease as a result of disasters and complex disasters. CRED also promotes exploration on larger aspects of humanitarian education crises, such as human rights and education law, socio-economic and environmental issues, early on warning systems, the special needs of women and children, and mental health care. The Centre is definitely actively associated with stimulating controversy on the performance of various humanitarian education interventions. It encourages technological and policy discussions upon existing and potential interventions and their affects on acute and chronic malnutrition, human survival, morbidity, infectious disorders and mental health.

The CRED crew works in four main areas:

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Natural disasters and the impacts

Municipal strife and conflict epidemiology

Database and information support

Capacity building and teaching

The CRED team

The Centre is composed of a multinational and multidisciplinary team which includes...