Disaster Management in Tajikistan
09.21 2007 05:10
Central Asia is subject to more than 20 various types of the dangerous natural phenomena, including earthquakes, cloudbursts, landslips, avalanches and floods caused by breaking of glacial lakes. Any of these threats - especially their combination - can lead to the death of thousand people, leave millions people without a roof over the head and means of subsistence, to destroy an infrastructure, to cause problems with delivery of food and other goods, to poison the rivers and to cause long-term harm to people's health and to the economy.