Natural Disasters, Vulnerability and Livelihood Security in Rural CameroonIncreasing occurrence of natural disasters is having immense impacts on livelihood security especially in developing countries. While it is generally accepted that these impacts will be stronger in developing countries, empirical evidence...
Hydrological disasters Floods Afloodis an overflow of an expanse of water that submerges land. The EUFloods directivedefines a flood as a temporary covering by water of land not normally covered by water. In the sense of "flowing water", the word may also be applied to the inflow of theti...
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Economics of Disasters and Climate ChangeCyrille Dominick Bittinggrid.513302.60000 0001 2193 4978Faculty of Economics and ManagementUniversity of Yaoundé II Yaoundé CameroonCristina Chaveshttps://ror.org/043pwc612grid.5808.50000 0001 1503 7226School of Economics and ManagementUniversity of Porto Porto ...
About 2/3rds of all on-land volcanoes occur in a narrow belt around the Pacific Ocean called the Ring of Fire True Volcanic mudflows are known as pyroclastic surges. False Villagers near Lake Nyos, Cameroon, were killed by a deadly eruption of which gas? CO2, carbon dioxide Lava flows ar...
Natural catastrophes cost the global insurance industry roughly USD 40bn in 2010, while man-made disasters triggered additional claims of more than USD 3bn. By com- parison, overall insured losses totalled USD 27bn in 2009. Despite notably higher than average earthquake losses, overall catastrophe...
Cameroon, Canada, Cape Verde, Central African Republic, Chad, Chile, China, Colombia, Comoros, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Republic of the Congo, Costa Rica, Cote d'Ivoire, Croatia, Cuba, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Djibouti, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador...
increases the resilience of the output growth of services to droughts, whereas disaster microinsurance helps to mitigate the effects of droughts and floods on the economic growth of agriculture in a Brazilian state where family farming is predominant and highly vulnerable to natural disasters. ...
The built environment is an asset of great value that must be preserved and continues to grow in harmony with nature in the coming decades. Climate change is a reality through multiple events: floodings, sea-level rise, heat waves, droughts, and storms are some examples. These disasters have...
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