Events in the last few years and growing acceptance of the phenomenon of climate change have heightened consciousness of the continuing threat to business from natural and manmade disasters. Windstorms on the continent in December 1999,
September 11, 2001, huge flooding in Germany and eastern Europe in 2002, and the cluster of four Florida hurricanes in 2004 and Hurricane Katrina in 2005 have been seminal events and the summer 2007 UK floods have had a real impact on awareness.
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