Publisher's Synopsis
Various disasters like earthquakes, landslides, volcanic eruptions, fires, flood and cyclones are natural hazards that kill thousands of people and destroy billions of dollars of habitat and property each year. With the tropical climate unstable land forms, coupled with deforestation, unplanned growth proliferation, non-engineered constructions, which make the disaster-prone areas more vulnerable, tardy communication, developing countries suffer more or less chronically by natural disasters.
