Drought hazard team report / CEOS Disaster Management Support Group.

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TextPublication details: [S.l.] : [S.n.], [1999].Description: [6] p. ; 30 cmDDC classification:

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Review: Drought is the single most important weather-related natural disaster. It is often aggravated by human action, since it affects very large areas for months, even years, and thus has a serious impact on regional food production, often reducing life expectancy for entire populations and economic performance of large regions or several countries. During 1967-1991, droughts affected 50 percent of the 2.8 billion people who suffered from all natural disasters and killed 35 percent of the 3.5 million people who lost their lives to natural disasters. In addition, subsidence of buildings, engineering works and relief measures following droughts involve high costs. In the current decade - which was proclaimed the Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction by the United Nations - large-scale intensive droughts have been observed on all continents.

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Drought is the single most important weather-related natural disaster. It is often aggravated by human action, since it affects very large areas for months, even years, and thus has a serious impact on regional food production, often reducing life expectancy for entire populations and economic performance of large regions or several countries. During 1967-1991, droughts affected 50 percent of the 2.8 billion people who suffered from all natural disasters and killed 35 percent of the 3.5 million people who lost their lives to natural disasters. In addition, subsidence of buildings, engineering works and relief measures following droughts involve high costs. In the current decade - which was proclaimed the Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction by the United Nations - large-scale intensive droughts have been observed on all continents.

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