Local disaster risk management in a changing climate perspective from Central America

• Other Authors: Hori, Tsuneki., Shaw, Rajib.
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Bingley, U.K. : Emerald, 2014.
• Series: Community, environment and disaster risk management ; v. 17.
• Subjects: Global warming > Central America.; elektronické knihy; electronic books
• ISBN: 9781783509362
• Physical Description: 1 online zdroj (xxiv, 192 p.) : ill.

Disasters cause economic as well as human losses. Indeed, economic losses associated directly with disasters have continued at increasing proportions worldwide since the 1970s, as the 2011 Global assessment report on disaster risk reduction conducted by the United Nations International Strategy for...