TY - BOOK ED - International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies TI - World disasters report 1999 SN - 9291390534 (pbk.): PY - 1999/// CY - Geneva, Switzerland PB - IFRC&RCS KW - DISASTER RELIEF KW - DISASTERS KW - HUMANITARIAN DISASTERS N2 - Annual report on humanitarian disasters and the steps taken to deal with them and to prevent them recurring. Section 1 covers environmental trends, floods, hurricane Mitch, severe winter weather, and earthquakes, El Nino and La Nina. Section 2 looks at the international aid system, the Sphere Project, statistics of recent disasters, and the work of the IFRC societies ER -