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This paper describes the development of the Disaster Risk Index (DRI) by the UNDP to quantify country-level risk from natural hazards. The DRI is based on a model that sees disaster risk as the product of physical exposure to hazards, vulnerability, and hazard frequency. Physical exposure combines population data with maps of hazard zones. Vulnerability is represented by socioeconomic indicators. The DRI was calculated for 4 major hazards (cyclones, droughts, earthquakes, floods) using data on exposed popul

Author

Khairul Azwan

Language

EN