A new resilience and risk report from First Street Foundation, “The 3rd National Risk Assessment: Infrastructure on the Brink,” calculates the risk of five key dimensions of community risk: residential properties, roads, commercial properties, critical infrastructure and social infrastructure.
According to the Titan research project, which specializes in the analysis of regional policy, 77 billion Euros can be attributed to losses connected to natural disasters.
The American Farm Bureau estimates 2020 natural disasters created $6.5 billion in crop losses alone, with less than half covered by indemnities through the USDA Risk Management Agency.
A cooperative study by University of Colorado and Boise State University researchers has found that more than half of U.S. buildings are in areas prone to natural disasters.
Wales, part of the U.K. is establishing eight innovation and resilience hubs across the country to help farmers, organizations and communities prepare and respond to drought in order to remain resilient.