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This issue addresses floods as among the most destructive natural hazards causing extensive damage to infrastructure, public and private services, the environment, the economy and devastation to human settlements. It advocates for better preparedness at

Submitted in preparation for the World Conference on Disaster Reduction, 2005, Kobe, Hyogo, Japan.

This publication provides 35 good practices and lessons learned as concrete examples of how to make children safer in their classrooms and educate them about disasters.

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This Media Kit has been developed as a guide for media professionals in five Southeast Asian countries (Cambodia, Indonesia, Lao PDR, Timor Léste and Vietnam) to raise the awareness of media professionals about their role in disaster risk reduction.

Vietnam’s geography makes it one of the most disaster-prone countries in the Asia-Pacific region. Every year its long coastline is hit by several typhoons that breach sea dykes and cause damage to houses, crops and aquaculture. The mangrove plantations

Good practices and lessons learned, a publication of the “Global network of NGOs” for disaster risk reduction.

This publication is a joint effort of the Global Network of NGOs for Disaster Risk Reduction, an emerging network of national and international

An edited collection of concise, hard-hitting essays by a group of international experts and scholars that address the politics and policy of environmental change and sustainable development in East and Southeast Asia. The book pays particular attention

Cover and source: Government of Vietnam
The general goal of the national strategy for natural disaster prevention, response and mitigation to 2020 is to mobilize all resources to effectively implement disaster prevention, response and mitigation from now up to 2020.

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