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This document presents a review of current and planned adaptation action in South America, covering the following 12 countries: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Uruguay and Venezuela. The review first

'The international cooperation was necessary on matters of disaster management since the occurrence has no respect for national or international boundaries,' said Alhaji Muhammad Sani-Sidi, the Director General of NEMA...

According to Novinite, Bulgaria's President Rosen Plevneliev stressed for a series of measures to deal with the damage and devastation from recent floods in southern Bulgaria following a dam failure...

"If Tokyo Bay, a key economic center, suffers damage, it would also impact Japan as a whole," said Tatsuhiko Ikeda, calling for disaster preventive measures against tsunami bigger than those on which the government plan for the entire country is based...

The U.S. Government has provided disaster preparedness kits valued at more than 480 million ($60,000) to communities in Attapeu to help mitigate the effects of natural disasters such as floods and typhoons...

The business world is on "the cusp of a major revolution" in its understanding of disaster risk reduction as insurance industry demands force a shift from traditional accounting-based management to risk-based management, according to Rowan Douglas, CEO Global Analytics at Willis Group.

Government representatives, climatologists, agricultural experts, disaster risk managers and others gather in Kigali, Rwanda, for three days next week to share information on the possibility of a third consecutive year of drought in the Horn of Africa.

This educational comic for children and youth focuses on flood, issued as part of a series of comics covering 7 hazards (drought, earthquake, fire, flood, hygiene promotion, tsunami, typhoon and cyclones).