2024 Disasters in Numbers
<p>In 2024, the Emergency Events Database (EM-DAT) recorded 393 natural hazard-related disasters. These events caused 16,753 fatalities and affected 167.2 million people. Economic losses totaled US$241.95
Asia
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In short
ivory crime
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Endangered
THE Asian tigers are imperilled; the booming economies of Asia are facing imminent collapse due to the threat of an AIDS epidemic. Medical experts, academics and social workers attending the
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Failure isn t a keyword
Pro-Poor Growth and Governance in South Asia, Decentralization and Participatory Development
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To live with the market
Globalization and Indigenous Peoples in Asia, Changing the Local-Global Interface
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VIETNAM
Multinational toba-cco companies faced with shrinking markets and increasing restrictions in the industrialised world, are wooing consumers throughout the newly-opened econo-mies of Loas, Cam-bodia,
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WILD CRIMES
An international wildlife smuggler has been sentenced for 71 months by a San Francisco federal court. He has also been directed to pay a fine of US $60,000. Keng Liang
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Salt of the sea
Disasters often help science researchers to understand natural phenomenon closely, and the Asian tsunami is no different.
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Thailand bans, Indonesia holds back
Close on the heels of the eu issuing fishing quotas (see Down To Earth,
