Nearly 3.2 million Burmese potentially affected by Nargis
Thursday, May 15, 2008 - 07:00
in Mathematics & Economics
As many as 3.2 million Burmese are estimated to be affected by the devastation caused by Cyclone Nargis, according to geographic risk models developed by researchers from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and Lehman College, CUNY. Using Geographic Information Systems (GIS), the researchers calculated the likely distribution of the population of Burma...
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