Natural Disasters

A natural disaster is a major adverse event resulting from natural processes of the Earth; examples include floods, hurricanes, tornadoes, volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, tsunamis, storms, and other geologic processes. A natural disaster can cause loss of life or damage property, and typically leaves some economic damage in its wake, the severity of which depends on the affected population's resilience and on the infrastructure available.In modern times, the divide between natural, man-made and man-accelerated is quite difficult to draw with human choices like architecture, fire, resource management or even climate change potentially playing a role. An adverse event will not rise …

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The National Archives · 1 January 1982 English

capacity of the UN system to respond to natural disasters and other disaster situations; the rest of



The National Archives · 1 January 1982 English

obstacles of all kinds - whether they be natural disasters or restrictions in economic co-operation






The National Archives · 1 January 1981 Serbian

A file of correspondence and reports concerning the internal situation in Yugoslavia. The documents cover assessments of the political and economic situation in the twelve months since the death of …



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