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Namibia: how disasters affect development

A call for taking adequate preventive measures against the landslide risk and implementing strong chains of disaster education...
New Era Publications Corporation
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To face quake, tsunami: experts for long-term risk management plan

Disaster management experts emphasize the need for formulation of a long-time risk reduction plan...
National News Agency of Bangladesh
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Know disaster, no disaster

Over 400 children participated in a two-day event aimed at raising awareness on disaster risk reduction...
India Together
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"Youth Awareness of Disaster Reduction" project works at grassroots level in Burundi

In September 2005, YSDR initiated a project called “Youth Awareness of Disaster Reduction” with ProVention funding. Meetings within communities were held in two provinces to raise people’s awareness of the risks around them....
Youth Strategy for Disaster Reduction
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Campaign launches on hospitals safe from disasters: 'the most expensive hospital is the one that fails'

"With current knowledge and strong political commitment it is possible to protect health facilities from disasters" says assistant Director-General for Heath Action in Crises at WHO. The two-year campaign launches from Davos...
World Bank, the World Health Organization United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction
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Space gears up for climate change study

A record 17 satellites are to be launched in 2008 in the largest-ever concerted global effort to monitor the impact of climate change...
The New Humanitarian
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Asia continues to be hit hardest by disasters

2007 saw a marked increase in the number of floods compared with the average of the last seven years...according to figures released by CRED...
Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction
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International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies warns of potential disastrous flood crisis in southern Africa

"This is why we should...respond to the coming crisis and further develop disaster preparedness activities,” said Peter Rees, Head of the International Federation Operations Support Department....
International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies