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Bookmark or Share- The human cost of disasters: an overview of the last 20 years ...In the period 2000 to 2019, there were 7,348 major recorded disaster events claiming 1.23 million lives, affecting 4.2 billion people (many on more than one occasion) resulting in approximately US$2.97 trillion in global economic losses. This is a sharp increase over the previous twenty years.
- How Much Is a Human Life Actually Worth? - WIREDNew York Governor Andrew Cuomo made the point in stark terms: “How much is a human life worth? That is the real discussion that no one is admitting, openly or freely—that we should,” Cuomo said...
- Uncounted costs - Data gaps hide the true human impacts of ...Even in the US, the world’s most storm-prone country with a rich seam of data about losses, the cost estimates do not include expensive, long-term impacts like environmental degradation of vital natural resources, health-care costs, or cascading impacts through the supply chain or business disruptions.
- The human cost of climate-related disasters is acutely ... - NPRA new study counts the human health costs from increasingly costly and dangerous extreme weather in the U.S.
- Addressing the human cost in a changing climate | Science - AAASThe direct cost of providing every internally displaced person (totaling more than 55 million in 2020) with support for housing, education, health, and security has been estimated at US$370 per person per year, accumulating to more than US$20.5 billion for 2020 .
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