Governance

'The international community is increasingly concerned about the consequences of climate change for people, especially those in developing countries with little capacity to adapt to the changes' said Danish Minister Ulla Trnis...

In the wake of the devastating Sichuan earthquake, the Asian Development Bank (ADB) will provide a $650,000 grant to the People’s Republic of China (PRC) to help improve its disaster risk management system...

The Government of Pakistan has announced new measures to improve the flood forecasting and warning system...

Crisis response, volume 4, issue 1, September 2007

The author speaks to Sálvano Briceño, Director of the United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction, who discusses June’s Global Platform, harnessing political will, policy issues and the

Ensuring the safety of residents and tourists is vital to one of the region's top economic earners - tourism, the Government of Barbados is committed to assisting in the establishment and implementation of a sustainable tourism development programme...

Hadramout governorate concluded on Tuesday a workshop on the protection of children and women from natural hazards...

Reporting on recent rumours of earthquake, a journalist highlights a call for increased public awareness, and disaster preparedness and early warning initiatives...

The Caribbean islands are highly vulnerable to a range of natural hazards and needed to have more in place to be prepared for future disasters, according to Montserrat’s Chief Minister Lowell Lewis...