How To Prevent Natural Disaster

Introduction

Floods, prevention and treatment

Humanity is vulnerable to all kinds of natural disasters. Some physical phenomena at least in the world that hosts us is floods, fires, landslides, volcanoes, earthquakes and all climate changes on our planet.

Disasters cause not only the loss of human lives, but also losses of billions of euro amount annually. Estimates of future costs and benefits shows that every dollar spent on a flood protection avoidable losses of six euro. In the period 1980-2011 only floods caused over 2,500 deaths, affected more than 5.5 million people and caused direct economic losses of more than 90 billion euro. The minimum cost of not adapting to climate change is estimated at 100 billion per year in 2020, and 250 billion euro in 2050 for the whole EU. (www.econews.gr)

Technologies and methods are required that can help in predicting and preventing natural disasters, to assess and repair the damage brought about, as well as to manage. The detailed analysis of the problems emerging from the event of natural disasters requires the harmonization of modern research and technological knowledge to the implement of effective measures to reduce the risk of natural disasters. (15ο Συνέδριο Σκυροδέματος, ΤΕΕ, ΕΤΕΚ, Αλεξανδρούπολη, 25-27 Οκτωβρίου., 2006)

Measures against disasters will save millions of lives and promote sustainable economic growth, will create new jobs, especially in sectors such as construction, water management, insurance, agricultural technologies and management of ecosystems and will affect the stability of the economy and the economic