世界气象组织：2012年健康与气候地图集（英文版）

Every year, disasters related to weather, climate and water hazards cause significant loss of life and set back economic and social development by years, if not decades. From 1970 to 2012, 8 835 disasters, 1.94 million deaths and US$ 2.4 trillion1 of economic losses were reported globally as a result of droughts, floods, windstorms, tropical cyclones, storm surges, extreme temperatures, landslides and wildfires, or by health epidemics and insect infestations directly linked to meteorological and