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As India’s northern state of Uttarakhand recovers from mid-June’s devastating flash floods and residents wonder when their lives might return to normal, another question lingers: How can similar tragedies be prevented in a country already prone to natural disasters?...

As China develops the capacity of its own disaster management system, it will be able to provide valuable insights for developing response and mitigation strategies across the region. To support China in this regard, The Asia Foundation is currently expanding its cooperation with NIEM to strengthen China’s role in foreign disaster assistance and coordination...

Map Your School is an online platform allowing children to enter information about hazards and resources in and around their schools and community, this information is then displayed on an overview map allowing people to at a glance visualise hazards in the neighbourhood and to see quick guidance on how best to mitigate them, or areas to avoid...

The e-learning tool can assist partner governments, non-government organisations, the private sector, educational institutions and multilateral and donor organisations to understand AusAID’s approach to these important cross-cutting development issues...

'Countries have been taking note of the issue for at least a decade or so, but it has never been at the right level of decision-making. This is where a change in thinking is immediately needed. Climate change impacts and variability should be integrated into macroeconomic projections,' said Darshani De Silva of the World Bank...

'Currently the Government of Malawi is developing a National Climate Change Policy and a National Climate change Investment Plan to guide effectiveness to climate change in Malawi. Plans are also underway to develop a National Adaptation Plan as a framework for addressing medium to long term adaptation needs of our country,' Malawi Minister Halima Daudi said...

'In the non-stationary environment caused by ocean warming, traditional approaches, which are solely based on analysing historical data, increasingly fail to estimate today’s hazard probabilities,' said Lead author of the study, Falk Niehorster from the Risk Prediction Initiative of the Bermuda Institute of Ocean Science...

BRAC University’s Nishat said Bangladesh’s leaders must act quickly to avert disaster. 'We have to take steps so that the impacts of climate change can’t cause a food crisis, destroy the ecosystem and hinder the development process,' he said...