Governance

Sensible and cost effective risk reduction programmes, such as early warning systems, strengthened building codes, and emergency preparedness strategies, are the best defense against future catastrophe....

SHAPE-RISK: Sharing experience on risk management (health, safety and environment) to design future industrial systems

With the exception of a few countries, the procedures for the IPPC and the SEVESO II Directives are not coordinated in the EU. Some

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Risques naturels et environnement industriel (DRA-013), Opération b

Dans le cadre de l'Etude et Recherche : "Risques naturels et Environnement industriel" le présent rapport s'intègre dans l'opération b/, en faisant la synthèse sur la

Tropical coasts magazine, vol. 14 no. 2

The latest issue of the Tropical Coasts features the programs and activities of local governments in addressing disaster risk reduction (DRR), as well as mainstreaming DRR into integrated coastal management (ICM).

'If we do not build in adaptation and disaster risk reduction into development work now, the costs in emergency and humanitarian response and reconstruction of future disasters will be off the charts' says Salvano Briceno of the UNISDR Secretariat...

Much more needs to be done and much greater funding made available to mitigate the devastating toll of natural disasters in an age when climate change threatens to increase both their frequency and severity, according to new UN report...

'We must build health centres and systems to withstand natural hazards and major emergencies' said Margaret Chan, Director-General of the UN World Health Organization 'If we don’t, lives will be lost needlessly'...

'We must realize the fact that disasters threaten sustained economic growth' said Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gillani....