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Disaster risk management

Disaster risk management is the application of disaster risk reduction policies and strategies to prevent new disaster risk, reduce existing disaster risk and manage residual risk, contributing to the strengthening of resilience and reduction of disaster losses.

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Ecuador: la Secretaría Técnica de Gestión de Riesgos y el municipio de Latacunga trabajan en mecanismos de prevención

La Secretaría Técnica de Gestión de Riesgo y el Municipio de Latacunga, el próximo viernes 12 de junio, a las 10h00, en el Salón de la Ciudad, del Palacio Municipal, firmarán un convenio con el objetivo de reducir la vulnerabilidad...
Secretaría Nacional de Gestión de Riesgos
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Haiti: Commitment of local populations, key to disaster reduction and risk preparedness

With the support of the European Commission’s Humanitarian Aid Department, ACTED is implementing the rehabilitation and cleaning of irrigation canals, embankments and dykes to prevent the risk of flooding...
Agency for Technical Cooperation and Development (ACTED)
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Philippines: PDCC Kalinga approves disaster contingency plan

Bracing for the typhoon months, members of the Provincial Disaster Coordinating Council (PDCC) came up with a contingency plan on how to manage and reduce the risk of disaster to lives and properties...
Philippine Information Agency
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Switzerland: Scientists seek to map extreme events

130 experts are gathering in Zurich this week for an international conference on researching extreme events, organised by the ETH Zurich, Vincent Landon of WRS reports...
World Radio Switzerland
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Ecuador: seminario Taller subregional andino

En la ciudad de Lima, del 21 al 24 de abril del 2009, se realizo un seminario en el marco del proceso de implementación de la Estrategia Andina para la Prevención y Atención de Desastres...
Secretaría Nacional de Gestión de Riesgos
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Nigeria: Government develops national climate change response master-plan

The Government of Nigeria is developing adaptation strategies and incorporating early warning into a preparedness and response master-plan according to John Odey, Minister of the Environment...
Guardian, the (NG)
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'Natural' disasters expert: Dominican authorities prioritize response over prevention

'The risk management process not only implies a response to events, but also mitigation, and above all prevention' said Juan Pablo Sarmiento, co-director of the Risk Disaster Reduction Program of the Latin American and Caribbean Center...
Dominican Today
Documents and publications

Climate change, vulnerability and livelihood: possibilities and prospect of the charlands of Bangladesh

Climate study series, no. 1:

This paper examines the vulnerability situation of people in the Charlands of Bangladesh, communities at the grassroots in a hazard zone. It addresses management of natural resources, effective policies to reduce risks or

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