Location
SPREP LIBRARY
Publisher
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
Publication Year:
2002
Publication Place
Havana
Physical Description:
235 p.
Call Number
[EL]
Collection
Material Type
Language
English
Record ID:
35032
Legacy PEIN ID:
75035
General Notes
Available online
Available online
Abstract
Disaster occurrence and losses associated with extreme and increasingly not so extreme climate events have increased dramatically in recent years. While many of the emerging patterns of disaster risk are associated with natural hazards that show no tendency to increases in magnitude and recurrence, human interventions in the natural\ environment are generating new socio-natural hazards, mainly associated with climate events. In many incidences of new flooding, landslide, drought, forest fire and coastal erosion, environmental degradation has transformed natural resources into new hazards. At the same time, the social, economic, territorial, physical and political vulnerability of populations in many developing countries continues to worsen, weakening their capacity to absorb the impact of and recover from extreme climate events.
Location
SPREP LIBRARY
Publisher
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
Publication Year:
2002
Publication Place
Havana
Physical Description:
235 p.
Call Number
[EL]
Collection
Material Type
Language
English
Record ID:
35032
Legacy PEIN ID:
75035
General Notes
Available online
Record Created: 01-Oct-2008
Record Modified: 20-Sep-2022