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Environmental Guidance Note for Disaster Risk Reduction - Healthy Ecosystems for Human Security
… cause severe economic damage; - pollution, from chemical waste and agricultural inputs, has severely degraded many … BOX 5 7 maintain soil structures, trap water and restore organic material, rendering soil more favorable to … of “do no harm” to long-term recovery (i.e. improper waste management practices that pollute waterways, or …
The impact of disasters and crises on agriculture and food security
… process, especially if it involves clean-up of toxic waste. The scale and complexity of fisheries operations … of rivers is greatly reduced, diminishing the quantity of organic matter that would normally flow to the coasts and … to reefs. Earthquakes cause coral reefs to be uprooted. Organic materials transported by rivers are diminished …