Governance

Scientists, sociologists, environmentalists, and representatives of international organisations explored measures to ensure sustainable development of the Cuu Long (Mekong) Delta at a meeting held in Can Tho, in early June...

Natural disasters may be unavoidable, but human vulnerability to those disasters is not. 'What kills, and what destroys, is the vulnerability of the population,' said Margareta Wahlström, UN Assistant Secretary-General for Disaster Risk Reduction...

'Disasters cause poverty, which leads to more disasters' said Kenya's Prime Minister, Mr Raila Odinga at the Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction yesterday...

To ensure safety of all students, teachers and staff, the Department of Education (DepED) has enhanced their disaster risk reduction management plan in the school communities...

The 2009 laureate for the Sasakawa Award for Disaster Reduction is geologist Dr Eko Teguh Paripurno. He receives the award - valued at US$ 50,000 - for his lifetime contribution and his outstanding commitment to reduce disaster risk and building capacity at the community level in Indonesia, one of the countries most vulnerable to multiple hazards.

The Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction opens in Geneva Leaders and representatives from some 165 Governments gathering here today for the 2009 Global Platform on Disaster Reduction will be urged to ‘invest today for a safer tomorrow’ – or face much harder decisions in the years to come.

'I think it is fair to say that adaptation to climate change (in its broadest sense) is now seen, at the highest level of most governments, as a national imperative for the coming decades.' An extract from a lecture given by John W. Zillman, Chairman of the Steering Committee for the Global Climate Observing System...

IUCN urges policy makers at the Platform to recognize and invest in sustainable ecosystem management as a cost-effective solution to reducing vulnerability to disasters...