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Lopsided hurricanes and the assymetrical damage they inflict.
These guidelines are based upon the 'Design Guidelines for Australian Public Cyclone Shelters' and incorporate the recommendations of the Queensland Tropical Cyclone Coordination...
This risk profile is an analysis of the mortality and economic loss risk for three weather-related hazards: tropical cyclones, floods and landslides. In addition new insights have been gained into...
Just after Cyclone Nargis struck the
coast of Myanmar on 2 and 3 May 2008, the
Secretary-General of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), Dr Surin Pitsuwan, called on all...
Comprehensive National Hazard Profile is an effective and powerful tool for mainstreaming Risk Management into development planning. It is also the first step for a country to develop evidence-...
Some 75 percent of the world's population live in areas affected at least onceby earthquake, tropical cyclone, flood or drought between 1980 and 2000. The consequences of such widespread...
Comprehensive National Hazard Profile is an effective and powerful tool for mainstreaming Risk Management into development planning. It is also the first step for a country to develop evidence-...
Natural disasters are happening more often, and having an ever more dramatic impact on the world in terms of both their human and economic costs. While the number of lives lost has declined in the...