Looking at the broader Asia region, Singapore is the only Asian city in the top ten global cities with a low natural disaster risk ranking. O verall Asia ranking - City - Overall Global ranking As Hong Kong continues to develop as a world-class business hub in Asia, it is essential to ensure that natural disasters readiness continues to be integrated into the city’s urban planning to protect government and company’s assets from potential natural disasters.”Īsia Cities Natural Disasters Risk ranking in the 2015 ARCADIS Sustainable Cities Index 2015 (from highest risk to lowest): Graham Kean, Asia-Pacific Head of Client Solutions at ARCADIS comments: “Whilst Hong Kong has a high risk ranking, the natural disasters protection plans in placed have been highly effective to date. However, the highly effective weather warning system and storm protection plans such as a drainage tunnel scheme in West Kowloon and the Northern part of Hong Kong Island put in place by the government have minimised their impact in recent years. Hence, the number of storms since 1900 in Hong Kong has been relatively high. The geographical location of Hong Kong makes it vulnerable to tropical cyclones between May and November each year. With an average annual rainfall of 2,200 millimetres, Hong Kong is one of the wettest cities within the Pacific Rim region. Hong Kong’s natural disasters risk is mainly caused by storms, floods and wildfires. Droughts, earthquakes, extreme temperatures, floods, mass movements, storms, volcanoes and wildfires were among the natural disasters included in the research.
The disasters that met at least one of the following conditions were included: Ten or more people reported killed one hundred or more people reportedly affected declaration of a state of emergency or a call for international assistance. The natural disasters risk ranking measures each city’s risk through its natural disasters volume record since 1900.
The Index was conducted by the Center for Economics and Business Research (Cebr) and included 50 of the world’s leading cities. Hong Kong, – Hong Kong tops Asia’s ranks as the city with the highest natural disasters risk, according to the recently released inaugural Sustainable Cities Index from ARCADIS, the leading global natural and built asset design and consultancy firm.
It has become important for urban planning to include natural disaster readiness Singapore is the only Asian city in the top-ten global cities with a low natural disasters risk Asian cities make up almost half of the global top ten cities ranked as having the highest natural disasters risk
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