Des facteurs tels que, notamment, l’utilisation intensive des sols, la croissance industrielle et urbaine désordonnée, l’exode rural, la désertification et l’augmentation de la fréquence de phénomènes climatiques extrêmes rendent les États membres plus vulnérables aux catastrophes, qu’elles soient naturelles ou d’origine humaine.
They are often made more likely by policies that cause a flawed relationship between mankind and the surrounding physical environment. Factors such as, inter alia, intensive land use, haphazard industrial and urban growth, abandonment of the countryside, desertification, increasingly frequent extreme weather events make Member States, and convergence regions in particular, more vulnerable to disasters, both natural and man-made.
