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Focus on Poverty: An aid solution for slum dwellers

2013-09-20 11:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

SciDevNet: I remember a dry comment nearly 40 years ago by a young woman on hearing that storms on the east coast of the United States had resulted in hugely costly damage: "Yeah, well, that'll be about four houses then". It came to mind when I read a SciDev.Net story on a study that said flood damage to coastal cities around the world could run to US$1 trillion a year. The numbers in the report are massive, but, for me, the report's most telling phrase was: "However, the paper does not assess the potential...

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