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Israel: 'Education a vital tool in fire prevention'

27 Jan 2012, JPost

Yeshayahu Bar-Or, deputy director-general of the Environmental Protection Ministry, took the opportunity to make a call for disaster prevention: 'The name of the game is risk management, and we want to reduce the risk. As long as there is a forest, there is a risk for fire'...

  • Nicaragua to get disaster mitigation aid from Russia

    27 Jan 2012, Prensa Latina

    'Nicaragua is a highly seismic territory and we have to be ready to face such a contingency or others like heavy rain and out-of-season drought caused by climate change,' noted Murillo, Coordinator of the Communication and Citizenship Council...

  • México: Fortalece SAGARPA componente de atención desastres naturales

    27 Jan 2012, AlianzaTex

    Con el objetivo de fortalecer la atención hacia los productores afectados por contingencia climatológicas, SAGARPA reestructuró las Reglas de Operación del Componente de Atención a Desastres Naturales (CADENA) para ampliar la cobertura...

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