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Fig. 3.6 Building census, Austria 1951-2001, every red point is representing 100 buildings.
(WIFO, 2008 based on Statistics Austria)
values (rebuilding investigations after a disaster are part of the GDP account) but
not inventory values.
Summing up these recommendations, it is evident that defining measured values
to describe the magnitude of natural disasters related to socioeconomic effects is
problematic. Natural catastrophes have to be considered not as a whole but separated
into relevant processes. Events have to be analysed in terms of “Climate Change
Tasks” as well as in terms of different vulnerability factors and different approaches
of rating their effects. Considering the supposed adverse effects of climate change,
emphasis should be placed on documenting and analysing the different triggering
effects.
Scaling down these general conclusions to the regional scale of the communi-
ties of Gasen and Haslau, no comparable losses are documented, although in the