Droughts
Subtitle: A Global Assessment (Hazards and Disasters, V. 2)
Publisher: Routledge
Published: February 8, 2000
Language: eng
Number of pages: 752
ISBN-13: 9780415168335
First sentence: Worldwide, economic damages attributed to natural disasters tripled from the 1960s (US$40 billion) to the 1980s (US$120 billion) (Domeisen 1995).