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During the past few decades, economic losses and human casualties due to natural disasters increased exponentially on our planet, mainly because of the increased density of population and industry in high hazard areas. Although the prediction of

Extreme weather events are those events which society is unable to cope with. They are by definition rare stochastic events. Europe has experienced on unprecedented rate of extreme weather events in the last 30 years. Heat waves occurred in France, Italy

National policy in disaster risk reduction field is expressed through various legislative
documents for the hole field and different risk types, administrative authorities, public
institutions and specialized institutions with responsibilities in disaster

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