Natural and Man-Made Emergencies

Yves Beigbeder

Chapter 6 in New Challenges for UNICEF, 2001, pp 116-144 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract According to a UN report issued in 1999, the world experienced three times as many natural emergencies in the 1990s as in the 1960s. The year 1998 was the worst on record for weather-related natural disasters. In the Caribbean, hurricanes Georges and Mitch killed more than 13 000 people; a June cyclone in India caused an estimated 10 000 deaths. Major floods hit Bangladesh, India, Nepal and much of East Asia, with thousands killed. Two-thirds of Bangladesh was inundated for months, making millions homeless. More than 3000 died in China’s Yangtze flood, millions were displaced and the financial cost was estimated at $30 billion. Fires ravaged tens of thousands of square kilometres of forest in Brazil, Indonesia and Siberia, with devastating consequences for human health and local economies. In Afghanistan, earthquakes killed more than 9000 people. In August 1999, Turkey suffered one of the most devastating earthquakes in recent history.1

Keywords: Security Council; International Criminal; Armed Group; Child Soldier; Oral Rehydration Salt (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2001
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230595576_6

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