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| | Finance & Development, March 2002 - Adapting to Climate Change |
 | | If this happens, malnutrition will become more prevalent and water will become scarcer in many areas—increasing the incidence of diseases that are vector borne (for example, malaria and dengue fever) and water borne (for example, cholera). |
 | | Rising sea levels could displace tens of millions of people in low-lying river deltas in countries such as Bangladesh and India as well as in small island states, potentially disrupting the livelihoods of poor people by reducing the amounts of goods and services available from ecological systems, such as coral reefs, mangrove swamps, and forests. |
 | | Projections based on computer models suggest that instances of extreme weather—such as heavy and variable precipitation, heat waves, coastal storm surges, cyclones, and flooding—are likely to become more frequent and intense and to have a growing economic impact, much like an external economic shock (see chart). |
| www.imf.org /external/pubs/ft/fandd/2002/03/heller.htm (2176 words) |
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