Disaster Impact is Growing:
••Population Growth: the number of people exposed to hazard is
increasing. Human vulnerability is high through dense concentrations of
population in unsafe physical settings..
••Land Pressure: More than8080% LDCs is dependent on agriculture,% LDCs is dependent on agriculture,
but are denied an unequal access to land resources.
Poverty forces of unsustainable land use & legacy of deforestation, soil
erosion & over--cultivation, more vulnerable to envcultivation, more vulnerable to environmental hazarironmental hazard,d,
especially flood & droughts..
••Urbanization: Rural--urban migration, driven by local land pressuurban migration, driven by local land pressurere
& global economic forces, is concentrating people into badly built & over--
crowed cities