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2015 | OriginalPaper | Buchkapitel
The Rational Role of Regional DRM Cooperation
verfasst von : Simon Hollis
Erschienen in: The Role of Regional Organizations in Disaster Risk Management
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK
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Natural disasters have become a heightened global security issue in the last decade. Not only have the number of major incidents increased over the last 30 years, but a majority of them have also occurred in developing countries (Perry, 2009: 61) that are highly vulnerable to disruptions to critical infrastructures. The adverse effects from global warming (Stern, 2006: 77–8; Field et al., 2012) combined with local, regional and global interdependencies means that when a natural disaster strikes it is more likely to produce escalating affects, such as the 2011 earthquake in Japan. General economic costs are also likely to increase. Global estimated damages caused by natural disasters rose from approximately USD 195 billion in the 1970s to USD 896.1 billion in the 2000s (EM-DAT, 2011b). Responding to this globalized ‘new normal’ (UNISDR, 2010a) reflects a new security agenda that has spread across the globe, infiltrating at least 26 regional organizations and a majority of states.