Tropical cyclones: paying a high price for environmental destruction
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Type: Report
Duration: January 2005 - on-going
Tropical cyclones are certainly powerful atmospheric hazards causing heavy rain, high wind and sea surge, but the related
disasters are not falling from the sky. Disasters are always the
combination of a hazardous event and vulnerable population.
There is no such thing as a "natural disaster".
Data credit(s):
Pascal Peduzzi (UNEP/DEWA/GRID-Geneva)
GRID unit:
Global Change and Vulnerability
UNEP region: Global
UNEP priorities:
Ecosystems Management, Disasters and Conflicts, Environmental Governance
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english version (2005, Size:1.14Mb)
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