Energy, disease risks: report

A global risk-analysis firm has released a grim – albeit partial – snapshot of Cambodia, noting that the Kingdom’s overreliance on essential resources from other countries leaves it vulnerable to instability, and that it is at “extreme risk” of a communicable-disease pandemic. The Global Risks and Resilience Atlas 2015 – which looks at natural and manmade problems affecting the globe, and which was released last week by risk-analysis firm Verisk Maplecroft – placed Cambodia at the top of its external resource security risk index, which rates a country’s vulnerability to fluctuations in outside sources of water, energy and food. …

Charles Parkinson
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