Open AccessScientists and planners look for ways to stem future flood disasters in Mozambique
Author(s) -
Showstack Randy
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
eos, transactions american geophysical union
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.316
H-Index - 86
eISSN - 2324-9250
pISSN - 0096-3941
DOI - 10.1029/00eo00087
Subject(s) - flood myth , product (mathematics) , spanish civil war , geography , natural disaster , gross domestic product , rural area , economic growth , political science , environmental planning , economics , archaeology , meteorology , geometry , mathematics , law
These are the images. A countryside under water. People wading through flooded urban centers. Families gathered on rooftops or clinging to tall tree branches that poke above the rising water as relief workers in helicopters hover to the rescue. After slogging through an extended civil war that ended in 1992, the impoverished country of Mozambique last year actually outpaced much of the world in economic development, with a robust 9% increase in gross domestic product.