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NOTES63 WHO (2006) ‘Cumulative Number of Confirmed Human Cases of AvianInfluenza’.64 C.J.L. Murray et al. (2006).65 UN (2005) Millennium Development Goals Report 2005.66 WHO (2007) ‘Lifetime Maternal Mortality Risk’.67 www.unfpa.org/mothers/facts.htm68 M.D. Layton et al. (2007).69 S. Maxwell (2005).70 J. Senderowitz (1995).71 UNDP (2005) op. cit.72 However, 26 million children worldwide were still not immunised by DTP3 in2006: WHO (2007) ‘Progress Towards Global Immunization Goals’.73 WHO (2005).74 www.who.int/reproductive-health/publications/cervical_cancer_gep/text.pdf75 WHO (2006) World Health Report 2006.76 Oxfam International and WaterAid (2006) op. cit.77 UNDP (2004) ‘Reducing Disaster Risk: A Challenge for Development’;International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (2004).78 In 2005, an unusually bad year because of the Asian tsunami of 26 December2004, the numbers tripled to a total of 244,577 people killed and over 150million affected.79 UNISDR (2004) op. cit.80 T. Vaux and F. Lund (2003).81 N. Fariba (2006).82 AFP,‘Tsunami calamity highlights key protective role of coral, mangroves’,Asia Pacific News, Channel News Asia, 6 January 2005,www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/afp_asiapacific/view/125966/1/.html83 In February 2005, Japan Bank of Industrial Cooperation conducted a study onthe role of mangrove afforestation in mitigating the damage caused by thetsunami, which confirmed that it provided a beneficial screen against windand sand, www.jbic.go.jp/english/environ/report/2005/pdf/08.pdf84 G. Venkataramani (2004).85 According to the Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction in its DisasterRisk Reduction: 2007 Global Review (June 2007), using data from the CRED-CRUNCH EM-DAT emergency disaster database (www.cred.be orwww.em-dat.net).86 Oxfam International (2007) ‘Climate Alarm: Disasters Increase As ClimateChange Bites’.87 Oxfam International (2007) ‘Sink or Swim’.88 J. Cosgrave et al. (2007).89 Oxfam International (2008) ‘Rethinking Disasters’.90 Oxfam America (2003).91 UNDP (2004) ‘Reducing Disaster Risk: A Challenge For Development’;G. Venkataramani (2004).92 K. Annan (1999).93 WMO (2006).459