Global climate change will increase the probability of extreme weather events, including
heatwaves, drought, wildfire, cyclones, and heavy precipitation that could cause floods and …

Tropical cyclones—variously defined as hurricanes, typhoons, and cyclones—regularly
impact human populations and periodically produce devastating weather-related natural …

Living with natural disasters has become a way of life in Bangladesh. On the night of 29 April
1991 a severe cyclonic storm, accompanied by tidal surges up to 30 feet high, battered the …

Cyclones continue to pose a dangerous threat to the coastal populations of Bangladesh,
despite improvements in disaster control procedures. After 138,000 persons died in the April …

Bangladesh, with a population of 151 million people, is a country that is particularly prone to
natural disasters: 26% of the population are affected by cyclones and 70% live in flood …

Background. Cyclones have significantly affected populations in Southeast Asia, the
Western Pacific, and the Americas over the past quarter of a century. Future vulnerability to …

THE US MILITARY has a long tradition of providing emergency humanitarian relief after
armed confrontation and disaster, and often to peoples of other nations. After World War II …

Besides the many benefits of the ocean, human and other populations living in coastal
regions share in the risk for meteorological and seismic hazards that originate from the seas …

This paper evaluates the health related response to large natural disasters using the
example of the recent Bangladesh cyclone of 1991. After providing a description of the …

Disasters may be classified according to the causative nature of the hazard as either natural
or technological. Natural hazards originate from natural process or phenomenon as …