1997 World Disaster Reduction Campaign : too little too much water; leading cause of natural disasters.

Photo sheet and key messages from the World Disaster Reduction Campaign; Posters x 2; Backgrounder: basic facts about our water resources; Statistics: major natural disasters 1960 to 1996; Statistics: natural disasters 1996 at a glance; Statistics: some major floods in the 1990s; Case study: Lake Sarez threatens central Asia; Case study: record floods strike repeatedly in China; Case study: living with flood risks in Bangladesh and the Netherlands; Case study: communities manage early warning flood system in Costa Rica, saving lives; Case study: European floods in 1997; Backgrounder: basic facts about drought; Statistics: desertification and drought - at a glance; Case study: how drought affects development; Case study: what can be done about drought, examples from Niger and India; About the International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction; IDNDR programme plan 1997-2000 "Design for the future"