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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 … Regulating flood waters Wetlands and peatlands provide storage space for flood waters, and there is growing evidence … 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
… to the depletion of the already scarce water resources in storage facilities, combined with increased salinity of … process, especially if it involves clean-up of toxic waste. The scale and complexity of fisheries operations … food for growth. Harmful algal blooms Chemical and toxic waste spills Kill-off of important fisheries targets fish and …