chapter 4 - DRK

Strictly under embargo until Wednesday 22 September at 00:01 GMT (02:01 Geneva time)expansion is driving risk in many Asian and African cities, too – and quite possibly evenmore strongly than in the above examples from Latin America, since a much lower proportionof the population in Asian and African cities have infrastructure and services.Figure 2.6Geographic distribution and frequency of registeredflooding events between 1950 and 1990 in Cali, Colombia1950–591960–69RecordBetween2 and 5Between6 and 10Between11 and 201970–791980–89Between21 and 50Source: OSSO (2008)Vision four: Settlement-scale data for fire disastersAnother vision of urban risk is offered by the Monitoring, Mapping and Analysisof Disaster Incidents in South Africa (MANDISA) database, which has records for18,504 fire events in Cape Town, South Africa from January 1995 to the end of 2004.The database, unique to Cape Town, provides an extremely detailed picture of fire risk,and shows us the massive extent of small-scale disaster events that are usually not partWorld Disasters Report 2010 – Focus on urban risk43