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The Cabinet has directed local authorities to examine existing buildings and those under construction in areas at high risk of landslides, reports Bernama, further to the devastating incident in which 15 children lost their lives in Hulu Langat last week...
Malaysian National News Agency/ Bernama
Asia-Pacific countries concluded a week-long annual United Nations forum in Bangkok, finalizing a comprehensive social and economic agenda for sustainable and inclusive development in the region. The 67th Commission adopted a set of resolutions which includes disaster preparedness...
United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UN-ESCAP)
With three typhoons already hitting the country, the Department of Social Welfare and Development-Cordillera Regional Office has approved the allocation of P6.8 million for disaster risk reduction management activities, reports the Philippine Information Agency...
Philippine Information Agency
'Hurricane Katrina has been transformative for the corps, changing the way it deals with risk. What the corps [Army Corps of Engineers] has built in this region is not a hurricane protection system but a risk reduction system, and that's a critical distinction' says an editorial in The Times-Picayune...
Times-Picayune, the - New Orleans Net, LLC
'Local governments are at the frontline of building community resilience against disasters. Making cities and municipalities disaster-resilient means conducting and sharing disaster risk assessments, establishing effective and efficient early warning systems, and protecting our ecosystems, among other actions' said Senator Legarda...
Journal Online
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'Risk reduction remains the core of Bhubaneswar’s development vision' says Piyush Ranjan Rout, an urban management practitioner and co-founder of Local Governance Network, an NGO that nominated the city for the Sasakawa Award, in a report by Manipadma Jena for AlertNet...
Thomson Reuters Foundation, trust.org
With support from the secretariat of UNISDR, the Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union recently launched the ABU Early Warning Broadcast Media Initiative to encourage and instruct members to improve their broadcast warning systems reports Radio World...
NewBay Media
Local government units (LGUs) in Aklan should invest time and effort to reduce disaster risks in their respective areas advised the Provincial Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council in the wake of typhoons and other natural calamities affecting the country year-round...
Philippine Information Agency
The Corps of Engineers has released an updated Status Map of the Hurricane and Storm Damage Risk Reduction System, reports the Bayoubuzz. The color-keyed map illustrates the established 100-year risk reduction elevations for individual areas throughout the system...
Bayoubuzz
'We are all concerned about the impact on society from the change in climate. We know such change in general is expected to make dry regions drier, warm regions even warmer and flood-prone regions even more problematic' said Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah, Minister of Environment and Tourism...
New Era Publications Corporation

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