FRATER, H. 1998. Natural Disasters. Multimedia program on CD-ROM for Macintosh and PC. Berlin, Heidelberg, New York, Barcelona, Budapest, Hong Kong, London, Milan, Paris, Singapore, Tokyo: Springer-Verlag. Price DM 98.85, Ös 623.00, SFr 78.00, £41.20, US $54.95 (hard covers). ISBN 3 540 14609 1.

Abstract

It may be the concluding year of the International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction (IDNDR) but natural disasters have continued to devastate many parts of the world in 1999, with major earthquakes hitting Taiwan and Turkey, floods in Indochina, and hurricanes Floyd and Irene bruising parts of the Caribbean and USA. In the past four years, natural disasters have claimed more than 25 0000 lives and cost of the order of $1 billion per week. Because of the varied geophysical, meteorological and hydrological natural causes of disasters, the complexity …