The March Toward Disaster

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In recent years, the world’s attention has been pulled rapidly from one disaster event to the next.With an average of nearly one natural disaster per day—348 recorded each year over the past decade—it is no wonder that governments, aid agencies, local organizations, businesses, and citizens are hard-pressed to keep up with these calamities.1* (See Figure 1.) To qualify as a disaster, as defined by the Center for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters, a natural hazard must kill 10 or more people, affect 100 or more people, or necessitate a declaration of emergency or call for international assistance...