Natural disasters

The number and impacts of disasters have increased in Europe in the last decades, according the reports  by the European Environment Agency (EEA)

The Agency's  reports addresse three different types of hazards: hydrometeorological or weather related (storms, extreme temperature events, forest fires, droughts, floods), geophysical (snow avalanches, landslides, earthquakes, volcanoes) and technological (oil spills, industrial accidents, toxic spills from mining activities).

The increase in losses can be explained to a large extent by higher levels of human activity and accumulation of economic assets in hazard-prone areas, but also, to a smaller extent, by better reporting. Although the share of losses attributable to climate change is currently impossible to determine accurately, it is likely to increase in the future, since the frequency and intensity of extreme weather events are projected to grow.

The most important hazards in our Countries

 Estonia

 Greece

Italy

 Portugal

 Reunion 

Romania

 Turkey