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Sunday, May 20, 2007
Facts
Natural disasters
Given the overwhelming evidence that climate change will lead to more frequent and serve natural disasters, children will be increasingly exposed to floods, droughts, windstorms, and possibly earthquakes and tsunami. Climate change will also lead to serious, localized but intense weather – related events, many of which are unlikely to generate media attention but will take a toll on both rural and urban development.
Disasters hit epicenters of poverty the hardest, as the poorest people often live in unsafe settlements in sub-standard housing and in dangerous areas: in earthquake zones, on floodplains, on step slopes at risk of erosion, or other areas which are prone to disaster.
The average number of people affected by natural disasters each year is currently 250 million people will be affected by natural disasters per year in the next decade, and that 175 million of those affected will be children.
Bibliography: Mr. Joseph Hwang
Given the overwhelming evidence that climate change will lead to more frequent and serve natural disasters, children will be increasingly exposed to floods, droughts, windstorms, and possibly earthquakes and tsunami. Climate change will also lead to serious, localized but intense weather – related events, many of which are unlikely to generate media attention but will take a toll on both rural and urban development.
Disasters hit epicenters of poverty the hardest, as the poorest people often live in unsafe settlements in sub-standard housing and in dangerous areas: in earthquake zones, on floodplains, on step slopes at risk of erosion, or other areas which are prone to disaster.
The average number of people affected by natural disasters each year is currently 250 million people will be affected by natural disasters per year in the next decade, and that 175 million of those affected will be children.
Bibliography: Mr. Joseph Hwang
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