Cyclonic catastrophes frequently devastate coastal regions of Bangladesh that host around 35 million people which represents two-thirds of the total population. They have caused many problems like agricultural crop loss, forest deg- radation, damage to built-up areas, river and shoreline changes that...
Pandemic and COVID-19 1. Introduction The National Guidelines for Disaster Management define the 'scenario for large scale infections and disability and mortality among people, plants and animals as a result of poisons, virus diseases, living organisms or their products' Biological catastrophes (Alshe...
But even on the heels of deadly catastrophes that scientists say will become more common withclimate change, such as flash floods in Rio de Janeiro orheat wavesin Europe, leaders are often failing to reinforce their defenses against natural disasters. Romero Lankao cites three reasons for the fa...
Beyond this, women and girls are also impacted by climate change in their everyday lives—education being a prime example. In many parts of the developing world, for instance, they are the ones who fetch water for their families, and asglobal warmingimpacts the availability of fresh water sou...