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Socioeconomic influence of Natural Disasters on the Western Balkan Countries

The Western Balkan region is a region of South-eastern Europe that presents pronounced activities of various types of natural hazards and natural disasters. This paper analyses data sets from two international databases of the main forms of natural disasters namely geophysical, hydrological, climatological and meteorological disaster events in the period 1900-2008. The following have been analysed: the number of natural disaster events, natural disaster occurrence by disaster type, total number of fatalities, the total number of affected people and the corresponding economic damage expressed as a percentage by selected types of natural disasters. The data analysis in this paper aims to confirm the importance of data collection and analysis аs а foundation for planning and preparing disaster reduction programs for the Western Balkan countries.

Western Balkan countries; period 1900-2008; Natural Disasters; statistical review

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