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Government officials are hastening to prepare for extreme weather events reports the Magharebia news agency. 'Algeria has set aside a budget of about 40 billion [dinars] as part of its 2010-14 programme to protect Algerian towns and cities against flooding,' said gov official Hacen Aït Amara...

'Just because there is a gap between some predictions and the actual tsunami, it is important not to take them lightly, and to heed warnings in evacuating' said Yoshiaki Kawata, professor at Kansai University...

According to the Mainichi Daily News, out of the 82,291 people in 12 towns and cities along the coast of the Iwate Prefecture, that were ordered to evacuate after the tsunami alert last weekend following the Chilean earthquake, only 7,000 were relocated....

UNESCO Director-General Irina Bokova expressed her distress over the death and destruction caused by the powerful earthquake that struck Chile and stressed the need for countries in high-risk areas to further strengthen disaster risk reduction capacity...

'Government must have the moral responsibility to technologically and financially assist the poor in their climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction efforts to compensate for the inequity and injustice'...

Selon le Journal du Cameroun, malgré de nombreux efforts et un cadre législatif renforcé, le Cameroun tarde à avoir un système de protection civile pertinent...

Water and climate change adaptation, 4:

This perspective document addresses water as a primary medium through which climate change will have an impact on people, ecosystems and economies, and aims at achieving and sustaining water security through water

The Wall Street Journal's Gautam Naik reports on the massive earthquake that hit Chile last weekend and asks why it caused less destruction than the less powerful Jan 12 earthquake in Haiti...