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Year of the foods
Rarely have fash foods, river fooding
and storm surges been so prevalent as in 2016.
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Analysis techniques
Compile your own statistics
Hurricane Matthew
Haiti devastated once again
Resilience
More than just a buzzword
Natural catastrophes 2016
Analyses, assessments, positions
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1Munich ReTopics Geo 2016
Editorial
Dear Reader,
2016 saw the highest natural disaster losses of the past
four years. At US$ 175bn, they were back up in the
mid-range, where they are expected to be. A bitter pill for
many of those afected was that the share of uninsured
losses – the gap in cover – remained high, with around
70% of losses not covered by insurance. By taking on
some of the fnancial burden, insurance can do much to
help people and countries get back on their feet quickly
following a natural disaster.
The latest issue of Topics Geo focuses on resilience: how
losses can be reduced or – better still – prevented, and
how to overcome a disaster as quickly as possible if one
does strike. We discuss this topic with Robert Glasser,
Head of the United Nations Ofice for Disaster Risk
Reduction in Geneva.
Two events in particular stood out in 2016. The year’s
costliest disaster was a double earthquake that rocked
the Japanese island of Kyushu. In the autumn, Hurricane
Matthew devastated entire stretches of land in Haiti before
striking the Bahamas and brushing the east coast of the
USA. Matthew was the most powerful hurricane to hit the
North Atlantic for almost ten years.
Another noteworthy feature was the large number of foods
that accounted for almost a third of the year’s overall los-
ses. Looking at just one year, this could appear to be mere
coincidence. But intensive research is being carried out to
determine the extent to which climate change has infu-
enced individual events. It goes without saying that there
is still a long way to go in this feld. But research enabling
us to deduce that specifc events will be more likely in
future as a result of climate change would provide clear
incentives to improve disaster prevention.
The current issue of Topics Geo looks into all of this and
much more. I hope you fnd the articles both interesting
and informative.
Munich, March 2017
Dr. Torsten Jeworrek
Member of the Munich Re Board of Management
and Chairman of the Reinsurance Committee
NOT IF, BUT HOW
2Munich Re Topics Geo 2016
Overcoming natural disasters
When disaster strikes, the basic functions
of society have to be restored as quickly as
possible.
A global priority
Interview with UNISDR Head Robert
Glasser.
Resilience – More than just a buzzword
Professor Peter Hppe on what makes
a society resilient.14
17Many extreme natural events only become
disasters if the societies they hit are not ade-
quately prepared for them. Preventing disasters
is not just a question of fnding the appropriate
response after an event. It is about building up
resilience in advance so that life can quickly
return to normal.
In focus
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