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Article: Disasters: What the United Nations and Its World Can Do.(Statistical Data Included)
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- UN Chronicle
- Article date:
- December 22, 2000
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CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 2000 United Nations Publications. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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Ironically, it was during a decade dedicated to natural disaster reduction (1990-1999) that we saw some of the worst losses of human life and the largest economic losses in living memory. Hurricanes and cyclones took large tolls in South Asia, the Philippines, Central America, the Caribbean and the United States. There has been unprecedented flooding in Europe, China, Venezuela and the United States. Earthquakes in Turkey, Japan, China and the United States cost a surprising number of lives and billions in money terms. And, just as that decade of intensive scientific activity and public discussion of disasters has come to an end, we witness the same old story: an ...
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