A Cost Effective Solution to Reduce Disaster Losses in Developing Countries : Hydro-Meteorological Services, Early Warning, and Evacuation

In Europe, it can be estimated that hydro-meteorological information and early warning systems save several hundreds of lives per year, avoid between 460 million and 2.7 billion Euros of disaster asset losses per year, and produce between 3.4 and 34 billion of additional benefits per year through th...

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Main Author: Hallegatte, Stéphane
Format: Policy Research Working Paper
Language:English
Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2012
Subjects:
AIR
CO
GAS
PP
WMO
Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2012/05/16255054/cost-effective-solution-reduce-disaster-losses-developing-countries-hydro-meteorological-services-early-warning-evacuation
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/9359

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