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'Lo que pretendemos es garantizar las condiciones de seguridad de la población y proteger su patrimonio económico, social y cultural, ya que en las cuencas de los mencionados ríos existen varias amenazas.'...

Scientists state that there is one way to minimize risks of even small earthquakes, however it costs about $10 million a pop. This expensive method would be to do a thorough seismic survey to assess tracts of rock below where oil and gas drilling fluid is disposed...

The National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) convinced the donor agencies on the concept of 'Building Back Better' so that the new houses would have the resistance to face any disaster in future...

'Rebuilding tourism is not just putting more effort into marketing and strategy, but also into prevention and rehabilitation,' said Kongkrit Hiranyakit, president for policy and planning at the Tourism Council of Thailand (TCT)...

SciDev.Net editors and columnists summarize the science and technology contributions to the fields of both disaster warning and disaster response in 2011...

Asegurar las propiedades es una manera de cuidar la inversión, dice el experto Igal Rubinstein; el aseguramiento de la infraestructura pública da la certidumbre requerida en sectores clave, añade, según CNN Expansión...

Según el censo de 2005, la población urbana en Colombia pasó del 28% al 76% entre 1938 y 2005, informe El Colombiano. Lo más preocupante...es que las ciudades colombianas no planearon el crecimiento desbordado y los riesgos del cambio climático, entonces la población rural se acumula en asentamientos humanos de desarrollo incompleto...

Industry operators must come forward by 30 June with measures they would take in response to floods and earthquakes, 'preventing a serious accident or limiting its spread' and 'limiting massive [radioactive] releases', reports the BBC...