Earthquakes, floods, drought, and other natural hazards cause tens of thousands of deaths, hundreds of thousands of injuries, and billions of dollars in economic losses each year around the world. Many billions of rupees in humanitarian assistance, emergency loans, and development aid are expended annually. Yet efforts to reduce the risks of natural hazards remain largely uncoordinated across different hazard types and do not necessarily focus on areas at highest risk of disaster. Natural disaster hotspots presents a global view of major natural disaster risk hotspots areas at relatively high risk of loss from one or more natural hazards. It summarises the result of an interdisciplinary analysis of the location and characteristics of hotspots for six natural hazards earthquakes, volcanoes, landslides, floods, drought and cyclones.
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