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A housing design by architects working with the actor Brad Pitt's Make it Right Foundation for post-Katrina New Orleans may suit flood prone areas in the Philippines says architect Jason Buensalido of Buensalido Architects...
'We are always reacting to crisis. It bothered me when I saw these reports and pictures and people are saying it's an act of God. It's not. It's us not following the plans and proposals' said urban planner Felino Palafo of the Philippines...
'The London School of Economics did a research of 141 disasters worldwide and for every disaster, out of five people who died, four of them were women,' says Lorena Aguilar, IUCN Global Senior Gender Adviser....
Risk transfer can be an important mechanism to help mitigate the impact of disasters, especially in hazard prone countries such as the Philippines....
'People in low-income countries are four times as likely as people in high-income countries to die in a natural disaster' said Vinod Thomas, DG of the World Bank’s Independent Evaluation Group....
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