Evaluating impact on natural desasters

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Scope

Does the option increase or decrease the likelihood of natural disasters?

Definition

Climate change will have a strong influence on natural disasters. Greenhouse-gas emissions have increased steadily on a global basis since at least the beginning of the industrial revolution and the process has not been halted or even slowed down yet - on the contrary. Human emission effect the global climate, which is now being changed in ways that are scientifically distinguishable from natural variations and in some cases even discernible by the average person. Facts which pose influence in climate change might therefore be taken as one of the indicators for possible changes in the likelihood of natural disasters. Any other change of nature´s balance can lead to an increase of the likelihood of natural disasters, such as river regulation, which leads to higher risks of dangerous floods, deforestation which leads to higher risks of dangerous storms, floods, erosion, landslides and avalanches, etc.

Result

Indicators:

To the best of the IA TOOLS team's knowledge, there are no indicators in the Eurostat database or in any other authoritative publicly available databases that are directly related to this key question. Users are invited to contribute their own knowledge to this topic by contacting the IA TOOLS team.

See also

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References

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