International Recovery Platform

The 1991 eruptions of Mount Pinatubo and subsequent widespread lahars are signal events both in volcanology and volcanic hazards mitigation.

The present book is a collection of nine papers published over nearly three decades. The first one is a newspaper article on the 1976 tornado in former Faridpur district, Bangladesh. Another article published in 1991,is on the impact of river-bank erosion

This document provides a baseline on which a strategy for Comprehensive Disaster Management (CDM) within the Caribbean will be designed.  CDM has been defined under the DERMS project as including integrated management of all natural and human-induced