Discusses droughts, floods, tropical storms, earthquakes, and volcanoes, and describes how poor planning, poverty, and unguided growth aggravates the effects of natural disasters

Natural Disasters: Acts of God or Acts of Man?

Politics & Social Sciences

Lloyd Timberlake

Anders Wijkman

Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan (Preface)

Social Sciences

New Society Pub

<p>Series; An Earthscan paperback. Physical description; 232 pages : illustrations, maps ; 20 cm. Notes; Bibliography: p. 227-233. "Earthscan is an editorially independent news and information service ... part of the International Institute for Environment and Development ..." -t.p. verso. Subjects; Environmental policy - Africa. Agriculture - Africa. Food supply - Africa. Famines - Africa. Land use, Rural - Africa. Peasants - Africa. Apartheid - South Africa. Agriculture and state - Africa. Land use. Race discrimination - South Africa. Man - Influence on nature - Africa. Desertification - Africa. Human ecology - Africa. Land use - Africa. Land use - Developing countries. Natural resources - Africa. Ecology - Africa. Africa - Social conditions. Africa - Economic conditions. Africa - Economic conditions - (1960-). Africa - History - (1960-). Africa - Economic conditions - (1945-). Genre; Illustrated.</p>

Africa in Crisis: The Causes, the Cures of Environmental Bankruptcy

Business & Money

Jon Tinker

Economics

International Institute for Environment and Development

Africa in Crisis: The Causes and Cures of Environmental Bankruptcy

Routledge

Hard Rain: Our Headlong Collision with Nature

Arts & Photography

Mark Ryall Edwards

Photography & Video

Still Pictures Moving Words Ltd

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