Atlas of Mortality and Economic Losses from Weather, Climate and Water Extremes (1970–2012)

 2014 edition 

The Atlas of Mortality and Economic Losses from Weather, Climate and Water Extremes (1970–2012) seeks to raise awareness of these and other challenges to collecting and analysing disaster risk information. It presents a worldwide analysis of extreme weather, climate and water events, drawing on the Emergency Events Database (EM-DAT), compiled by the Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED). The Atlas compares the reported impacts of meteorological, climatic and hydrological extremes (as categorized by CRED) on people and economies at both global and regional levels.

Collection(s) and Series: WMO- No. 1123

Language(s): English

ISBN (or other code): 978-92-63-11123-4

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 Атлас смертности и экономических потерь в результате экстремальных метеорологических, климатических и гидрологических явлений (1970—2019 гг.) (ВМО-№ 1267) (2021)