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Natural Disasters & Environmental Accidents
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 What is the general situation
with these ISSUES?
- Expanding urbanization of reclaimed land in the narrow coastal
fringe and on steep slopes increases risks from natural disasters
and requires large-scale hazard mapping and improved site selection.
- Excessive soil erosion raises the levels of stream beds, contributing
to flooding. In extreme rain storms, sediments can fill up the
stream channel causing sudden shifts in the course of the streams.
- Natural and man-made disasters have indirect damages and costs,
though they are not usually quantified.
- The respective agencies are now working to put together a Flood
Plain Management System based on flood zone maps, This system
would regulate and guide residential development, location of
roads and critical lifeline facilities
- An effort by the NRCA to reduce pollution of the industrial
sector has shown that many plant operators have little information
on effluents and emissions that they produce, and few have ever
done any environmental audits.
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