Disasters
Subtitle: acts of nature, acts of man?
Contributors: United Nations. Dept. of Humanitarian Affairs.
Series: DHA issues in focus series -- no. 5.
Publisher: United Nations Department of Humanitarian Affairs
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Geneva, Switzerland
Language: eng
Number of pages: 25
Subjects: Disasters; Natural disasters; Nature -- Effect of human beings on; Disasters -- Economic aspects; Disasters -- Social aspects; Disasters -- Environmental aspects
Other titles: DHA news.
Notes: "This document first appeared in DHA News No. 17, November/December 1995"--P. v.
Table of contents: title: What's natural about a disaster? Resource depletion: nature strikes back / L. Griffith; title: Reconciliating man and nature to reduce disasters / J. Kuroiwa; title: Preparing for natural/technological disasters / J. Makris; title: The cost of disasters - a reinsurer's view / I. Knoepfel & W. Schaad; title: Wastes not wanted / Secretariat of Basel Convention; title: Promoting development in vulnerable human settlements / I. Armillas; title: Combating the increasing complexity of urban disasters / L. Vrolijcks; title: Black Sea fisheries - a case of environmental overload / I. Zrajevskij; title: Bridging the gap between human and environmental disasters / V. Sakharov.