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'Risk management requires actions, ranging from improving infrastructure to building individual and institutional capacity, in order to reduce risk and respond to disasters but these require money which politician must make available'...

On the sidelines of COP17: 'the world had to pay more attention to external natural events such as seismic events and tsunamis, as well as severe accident management and emergency preparedness needed to be improved.'...

The United States should get prepared before the next natural hazard arrives through the Securing America’s Future and Environment (SAFE) Act for instance...

Scientists assert that the behaviour of animals could be useful in forecasting an earthquake, reports the BBC...

The chief climate negotiator for the EU and Poland, Tomasz Chruszczow, said, 'we want to see the board start as early as 2012.' The next step would be the composition of a board to run the fund, which is meant to help developing countries adapt to climate change...

'My organisation has selected Cape Town as a role model based on its outstanding achievements over the past decade. Leading by example is often the most effective way to encourage others to follow suit,' said Justin Ginnetti, Associate Programme Officer for UNISDR...

Now, when the next floods come, the families will stay safe on their roofs along with their household goods and food rations. This effort is part of the Heritage Foundation’s goal to find solutions for disaster-risk reduction and resistance for communities, writes Yasmeen Lari for the Express Tribune...

'The grant is a huge contribution to moving forward the science of earthquake early warning systems,' said Thomas Heaton, director of the Earthquake Engineering Research Laboratory...