PREVENTION& MITIGATION

Redraw in 2022 from data: The risk management cycleAtkinson et al, 2006

Pourcentage d’occurrences de catastrophes naturelles par type de catastrophe (1995-2015) - Dans le rapport “The Human Cost of Weather Related Disasters” du Centre de recherche sur l’épidémiologie des catastrophes (Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters) - 2017

WATER: RESOURCE & DANGER

Water is an essential resource for human and economic activities. It structure landscapes, is an ecosystem, has shaped our environment through it and still shapes it.

Obviously, water is also, and has always been, a risk factor, especially flooding. However, civilizations have been built around water, because it is a vital asset for life, despite floods.

Water damage is one of the most damaging natural hazards today and is likely to become more frequent, more relevant and more important in the future due to the effects of increasing population and the impact of climate change.