community-based disaster risk management and the media media kit

chapter 3. useful information for the media
Bio-physical
• Increase in deforestation/forest cover removal
• Scarcity of fodder
• Damage to crop quality
• Livestock death or incapacitation
• Unusual movements of fl ocks and herds in search of pasture
• Impaired productivity of forest lands
• Direct loss of tree, especially young ones
• Extinction of endangered species and loss of bio-diversity
• Drying up of water sources and deterioration in water quality
• Damage to fi sh habitat
• Decline in crop production or negative impacts on agriculture economy
Economic
• Loss from dairy/fi shery/other livestock production
• Loss of livelihoods/employment opportunities
• Increased prices of food/fodder
• Falling of current agricultural and non-agricultural wages
Social
• Migration of people in search of alternative livelihood
• Loss of human life (heat stress, suicides, starvation, deaths,
unhygienic conditions in the working areas)
• Distress sale of assets (movable and non-movable)
• Increased inequity among social groups
• Increased confl icts - water user’s confl icts, political confl icts and
other social confl icts
• Negative impacts on nutritional status
• Increased mental and physical stress (e.g. anxiety, depression, loss
of security, domestic violence, etc.) and morbidity
• Increase in crime rate
• Social cost of migration, e.g. break-up of communities and families
• Inability of certain groups within the population to afford increased
food prices results in switch to cheaper and sometimes less preferred
foods or reduction in overall food intake, etc.
• Loss of education due to reduction in school attendance by children
lacking energy and/or money for fees, and increase in child labor
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