Este es el número 18 de la publicación anual EFFIS.
informe sobre incendios forestales para el año 2017. Este
El informe se consolida como altamente apreciado.
Documentación del bosque del año anterior.
Incendios en Europa, Oriente Medio y Norte de África.
En sus diferentes secciones, el informe incluye
Información sobre la evolución del peligro de incendio en.
las regiones europeas y mediterráneas, las
Daños causados ​​por incendios y detallado.
Descripción de las condiciones de incendio durante el
Campaña de fuego 2017 en la mayoría de los países.
en la red EFFIS. El capitulo sobre nacional
La presentación de informes da una visión general de los esfuerzos
emprendidas a nivel nacional y regional, y
proporciona inspiración para los países expuestos a
riesgo de incendio forestalThe figures presented in the Atlas 2017 show that exposure to natural hazards doubled in the last 40 years, both for built-up area and population. Earthquake is the hazard that accounts for the highest number of people potentially exposed. Flood, the most frequent natural disaster, potentially affects more people in Asia (76.9% of the global population exposed) and Africa (12.2%) than in other regions. Tropical cyclone winds threaten 89 countries in the world and the population exposed to cyclones increased from 1 billion in 1975 up to 1.6 billion in 2015. The country most at risk to tsunamis is Japan, whose population is 4 times more exposed than China, the second country on the ranking. Sea level surge affects the countries across the tropical region and China has one of the largest increase of population over the last four decades (plus 200 million people from 1990 to 2015). The figures presented in the Atlas are aggregate estimates at country level.
The value of the GHSL layers used to generate the figures in this Atlas is that the data are available at fine scale and exposure and the rate of change in exposure can be computed for any area of the world. Researchers and policy makers are now allowed to aggregate exposure information at all geographical scale of analysis from the country level to the region, continent and global.