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| | 2.1 Isohyets representing mean annual rainfall in mm over northern Africa, 1901-1996 | 25 |
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| | 2.2 Spatially aggregated annual rainfall anomalies roughly corresponding to the Sahelian zone | 25 |
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| | 2.3 Annual global occurrences of four disaster types | 31 |
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| | 2.4 Global drought occurrence | 33 |
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| | 2.5 Global frequencies of all disaster types | 33 |
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| | 2.6 Changes in the probability of extreme events with increases in mean and variance for temperature | 37 |
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| | 5.2 Hydrometeorological disasters in developing countries | 78 |
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| | 5.3 Natural disasters in developing countries | 78 |
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| | 8.1 Financial structure of the insurance industry | 128 |
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| | 8.2 The institutional structure of UNFCC | 130 |
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| | 8.3 The property risk underwriting chain | 130 |
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| | 9.1 A location and isoseismal map of the 12 October 1992 Dahshûr, Egypt earthquake | 144 |
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| | 11.1 Overview of community-level vulnerability experiences | 173 |
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| | 13.1 Earthquake zoning map for Turkey | 199 |
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| | 13.2 The relationship between development and vulnerability to disasters | 201 |
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| | 14.1 The upper reaches of the Yangtze river | 215 |
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| | 14.2 The vicious cycle of poverty and environmental degradation, West Sichuan | 221 |
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Book title: Natural Disasters and Development: In a Globalizing World.
Contributors: Mark Pelling - Editor.
Publisher: Routledge.
Place of publication: New York.
Publication year: 2003.
Page number: vii.
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