Natural security: protected areas and hazard mitigation, arguments for protection

• Source(s): World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF)
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN/ISSN: 9782880852801
• Author(s): Stolton, Sue; Dudley, Nigel; Randall, Jonathan
• Number of pages: 128 p.

This document, prepared with environmental research group Equilibrium, examines in detail the impacts of floods in Bangladesh (2000), Mozambique (2000 and 2001) and Europe (2006), heat waves and forest fires in Portugal (2003), an earthquake in Pakistan (2005) and the Indian Ocean tsunami (2004) and Hurricane Katrina in the USA (2005) in illustrating the natural disaster prevention and mitigation potential of environmental conservation.

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