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50 experts in earthquake emergency management from the Civil Protection Authorities, other ministries and organisations in Turkey, the Mediterranean and Western Balkan countries to participate in the event...

India was recently praised for its efforts on disaster risk reduction (DRR), at the recently concluded 4th Asian Ministerial Conference on DRR, and urged to incorporate DRR into its national policy to help cope with climate change, reports the Times of India...

Working in one of the most disaster-prone countries in the world, Bangladeshi aid groups have learned that well-intentioned disaster relief programmes without community participation do little to protect those communities in the long run...

Strict regulations preventing the building on, or blocking of, drainage channels need to be implemented if Sri Lanka is to have fewer urban flash floods, experts say in an IRIN report. Urban flooding is becoming more common due to buildings blocking drainage systems, natural channels and low-lying areas....

Heavy rain flooded most of Thailand this past month, affected nine million people in 51 of the country’s 75 provinces, and underscored the country’s need for better community disaster preparedness, government officials say...

'Disaster risk management is about saving precious lives and properties, and it is the government's duty to take it seriously. We have been lucky so far, but who knows what we might have to face tomorrow' writes Mona Devotka, monitoring and supervision officer at Nepal Red Cross...

'This project will use an innovative new adaptation model developed by KBR in Australia, which places us at the forefront of the newly-emerging field of climate change adaptation' said Colin Elliott, President, KBR Infrastructure and Minerals'...

'This bottom-up risk reduction approach is fully supported and complementary to the top-down approaches from national, state and local government strategies and is essential for effective local adaptation' said workshop facilitator, Susie Chapman...

Matthew Kahn, economics professor at UCLA, takes a look at the recently released 'Natural hazards, unnatural disasters' and debates that a combination of migration and increasing income will help millions of people in the developing world cope with climate change induced natural disaster risk...

A key water resource that will grow in importance as climate change takes hold is currently going largely unmeasured, with big implications for poor communities in developing nations, says research published recently by the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED)...