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Uploaded on Tuesday 21 Feb 2012
by GRID-Arendal
Early warning systems
Year:
2006
Author:
Emmanuelle Bournay, UNEP/GRID-Arendal
Description:
Every year, disasters caused by weather, climate and water-related hazards impact on communities around the world, leading to loss of human life, destruction of social and economic infrastructure and degradation of already fragile ecosystems. Statistics from the Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED) at the university of Leuven, Belgium, reveal that from 1992-2001, about 90% of
natural disasters were meteorological or hydrological in origin; the resulting economic losses were estimated at $446bn, or about 65% of all damage caused by natural disasters.
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