NZ has no dedicated database to track losses from weather disasters – without it, we’re planning in the dark
- Written by Ilan Noy, Chair in the Economics of Disasters and Climate Change, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington
STR/AFP via Getty ImagesFollowing the Trump administration’s abrupt cuts to USAID funding last month, the online international disaster database EM-DAT (normally funded by USAID) went dark for a week.
EM-DAT collates data on the occurrence and impacts of thousands of mass disasters worldwide and records both human and economic losses in a...
