Chair: Rut Erdelyiova, Resilience Advisors Network Rohini Swaminathan currently works as GIS Analyst at the United Nations World Food Programme. Previously she worked as a consultant for UNITAR (the United Nations Institute for Training And Research) and as a Center Lead for the NASA DEVELOP National Program. She specialises in capacity development, disaster management, GIS and remote sensing.

1. Source : NASA

3. 0
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1980 1982 1984 1986 1988 1990 1992 1994 1996 1998 2000 2002 2004 2006 2008 2010 2012 2014
NUMBER OF DISASTERS
Number of disasters
*approximate values

4. Source : WFP/Photo Library

5. Source :
WFP GIS

6. Source : WFP/Photo Library

8. Source : UNITAR/UNOSAT

9. Source : UNITAR/UNOSAT

11. Source : Digital Globe

13. Source : UNITAR/UNOSAT

15. 700 vs >150,000
Chile Haiti

16. Natural Disaster

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1951 1971 1991 2011 2031 2051
BILLIONS Population Estimate

19. Source : NASA

22. Source :
WFP GIS

23. Technology alone can’t
solve all problems

24. GOVERNMENT TECHNOLOGY
PEOPLE

25. Source : NASA