Climate Change 2001:
Working Group II: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability
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Figure 15-5: Insured natural disaster losses have increased 10-fold in North America between 1969 and 1999 (based on 5-year running mean). Data include nonweather-related losses (~15% of total). Sources: Emergency Preparedness Canada, 2000; Kunreuther and Roth, 1998 (United States).

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