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The global tourism industry is increasingly resilient to both natural and man made threats. The effective management of natural disasters is enacted in four phases: readiness, reduction, response and recovery...

'Rapid growth and urbanization in vulnerable areas are creating a need for countries in East Asia to build innovative and disaster-resilient cities and to ensure environmental sustainability, and adaptation to the effects of climate change'...

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...

Insurance Australia Group says it will pay more for catastrophe insurance cover this financial year and will have insurance protection of nearly $5 billion in 2012, including coverage for earthquakes and floods...

'Roo Su Flood' (Know, Fight Flood) showed how to handle the situation when the water arrived: comparing the billions of cubic-meters of water to Blue Whales managed to put on a little smile even during the hardest times...

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...

As the Thai capital, Bangkok, recovers from the worst flooding in a century, many are concerned that the disaster may be a sign of things to come amid a changing climate.

'As community leaders we should take a leading role in preventing and putting out fires,' said Paramount Chief M’mbelwa of Mzimba during a meeting on fire prevention in the government-owned Viphya plantation...

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...