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by Flickr user Cimexus, Creative Commons BY-ND 2.0, http://www.flickr.com/photos/cimexus/5883421837/
APEC echoes the need for emergency preparedness to ensure the economic vitality of the Asia-Pacific region and reminds Member states that 'the first line of defense of disaster management lies in preparedness and training.'...
Continuity Central, Portal Publishing Ltd
by Flickr user theresac / Theresa Carpenter, Creative Commons BY-SA 2.0, http://www.flickr.com/photos/theresac/4674725967/
Benin is taking steps to ensure there is less devastation from seasonal floods. Disaster management authorities have urged mayors to take prevention measures as part of risk-reduction schemes developed with international aid agencies...
Thomson Reuters Foundation, trust.org
Durante el ‘II Congreso Nacional del Clima 2011: La Adaptación de Colombia’, representantes del Gobierno Nacional plantearon la necesidad de implementar nuevas medidas para enfrentar el impacto del cambio climático en el país...
El Nuevo Dia
The City mayor stressed that the council must ensure the integration of disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation into local development plans, programs and budgets as a strategy in sustainable development and poverty reduction...
Philippine Information Agency
En Venezuela Protección Civil y Administración de Desastres inspecciona las zonas vulnerables de diversas localidades del estado Trujillo, donde la tarde de este Miércoles se registró un fuerte aguacero...
El Universal - Venezuela
Fue presentado el proyecto que le permitirá a Cartagena convertirse en la primera ciudad de Colombia en tener un Plan de Adaptación al Cambio Climático...
El Universal - Colombia
by Flickr user Michael Dawes, Creative Commons BY-NC 2.0, http://www.flickr.com/photos/tk_five_0/3946622431/
The 2011 Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction is launched in at the Third Session of the Pacific Platform for Disaster Risk Management, where an objective is to endorse a 'roadmap' for development of a regional policy framework for disaster risk management and climate change adaptation....
Secretariat of the Pacific Community
by Flickr user aftab./Aftab Uzzaman, Creative Commons BY-NC 2.0, http://www.flickr.com/photos/aftab/152945444/
This op-ed demonstrates the shift from relief to disaster preparedness in Bangladesh and the main responsibility that lies with the community and its people, encouraging them to solve their own problems by themselves and not waiting for other support...
Financial Express
by Flickr user mrwalter, Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 2.0, http://www.flickr.com/photos/mrwalter/3729382705/
Katrina Kremer, une spécialiste des sédiments lacustres, a découvert des traces de la catastrophe mythique de l’an 563 et a pu reconstituer le déroulement du raz-de-marée qui faucha tout sur son passage, humains, troupeaux, maisons...
24 heures, Edipresse Publications SA
by Flickr user Zuorio, Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 2.0, http://www.flickr.com/photos/zuorio/269773352/
The Nigerian government has launched the system aimed at combating the adverse effect of climate change for sustainable development, food security and well being of the people, which could also be used in dealing with the destructive effects of persistent flooding in the country...
Afriquejet.com

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