An uncommon number of crop failures, fires, epidemics, and droughts reconfirmed peoples' sense of divine displeasure with the performance of the ruler.
Scientists have seen this kind of behaviour, called criticality, in all kinds of systems: the size of earthquakes, forest fires, epidemics and so on all have the same kind of distribution.
In contrast, major disturbances include large-scale wind events (such as tropical cyclones), long-lasting droughts, volcanic eruptions, tsunamis, intense forest fires, epidemics, ocean temperature changes stemming from El Niño events or other climate phenomena, and pollution and land-use conversion caused by humans.
In contrast, major disturbances include large-scale wind events (such as tropical cyclones), volcanic eruptions, tsunamis, intense forest fires, epidemics, ocean temperature changes stemming from El Niño events or other climate phenomena, and pollution and land-use conversion caused by humans.
Zimbabwe is a disaster-prone country suffering particularly from the devastating effects of droughts, floods, veld fires, epidemics such as cholera and malaria, and the HIV/AIDS pandemic (Table 3).
The absence of a standard collaborative framework that can be employed in the management of risks, as well as for response and recovery from hazards and disasters (for example, fires, epidemics, floods, earthquakes, chemical explosions), provided the impetus for this research.
Earthquakes, droughts, wild fires, epidemics, floods - we can't prevent natural hazards but if we are unprepared they can turn into disasters right before our eyes.
Worse, kerosene fires are epidemic in Africa, and their toxic fumes cause respiratory ailments that kill hundreds of thousands per year.
It has been difficult to eradicate or reduce the incidence of fire blight epidemics.
Previous response plans grew from previous experience: wild fire cholera epidemics that burned out quickly, ability of rehydration strategies to decrease case-fatality rates to <1%, and a problematic parenteral cholera vaccine.
