Drought
Subtitle: A Global Assessment (Routledge Hazards and Disasters Series)
Publisher: Routledge
Published: June 2000
Language: eng
Number of pages: 422
ISBN-13: 9780415168342
First sentence: Worldwide, economic damages attributed to natural disasters tripled from the 1960s (US$40 billion) to the 1980s (US$120 billion) (Domeisen 1995).