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Author(s) Stolton, Sue; Dudley, Nigel; Randall, Jonathan

Natural security: protected areas and hazard mitigation, arguments for protection

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World Wide Fund For Nature
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This document, prepared with environmental research group Equilibrium, examines in detail the impacts of floods in Bangladesh (2000), Mozambique (2000 and 2001) and Europe (2006), heat waves and forest fires in Portugal (2003), an earthquake in Pakistan (2005) and the Indian Ocean tsunami (2004) and Hurricane Katrina in the USA (2005) in illustrating the natural disaster prevention and mitigation potential of environmental conservation.

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Hazards Cyclone, Hurricane and Typhoon Earthquake Flood Heatwave Tsunami Wildfire
Themes Environment and ecosystems Risk identification and assessment Social impacts and social resilience
Country and region Bangladesh Mozambique Pakistan Portugal United States of America
ISBN/ISSN/DOI
9782880852801
Number of pages
128 p.
Publication year
2008

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