Natural disasters-earthquakes, hurricanes, famine - are hitting our planet on an unprecedented scale. Television brings fresh images of distress, death and misery into our living-rooms. Faced with forces apparently too great to handle, many of us suffer a feeling of hopelessness.
But it need not be like that.
Richard Kershaw reports on the new developments in the management of disasters; on how Bangladesh has, for six months, been successfully fighting off a famine that threatens six million people; how Latin America copes with earthquakes; and he investigates the horrendous lessons to be learned from the African famine.
The contributors include
HRH The Duke of Edinburgh. Film cameraman JOHN BECK Film sound DAVID BRABANTS Film editor STEPHEN GABELL
Executive producer ANTHONY ISAACS Producer DESMOND LAPSLEY