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'Our efforts are focused on providing tents during the rehabilitation process and helping the affected communities to reconstruct their destroyed houses, but what is our mitigation strategy?'...
'It is better to be prepared now in order to minimise damage rather than grapple with the consequences of being unprepared when disaster does strike' warns Dawn.com in an editorial...
A new project 'Reducing Risks and Vulnerabilities from Glacier Lake Outburst Floods in Northern Pakistan', funded by UNDP, has been launched to minimise risks of 'natural' disaster as a result of floods caused by a glacial lake outburst...
The communication sent to the government said that Pakistan's current disaster management policies, risk reduction and preparedness plans addressed recurrent natural hazards but were not yet geared to deal with the new dimension of Glof threats...
'After Fukushima, we have drawn lessons on all aspects of reactor safety and one positive development is the integrated disaster management plan,' the Atomic Energy Regulatory Board chairman S.S. Bajaj said...
In his opinion for Dawn, Mohammad Hussain Khan urges the federal and provincial governments to seriously consider disaster mitigation methodologies with reference to changing weather patterns as 'adaptation is key to disaster risk reduction.'...
Nasir Ali Panhwar, writing for Dawn.com, calls for a disaster risk reduction strategy to be developed by designing appropriate structural measures and devising need based, non-structural measures to reduce the risk of disasters...
Oxfam has said that an effective DRR mechanism could have prevented the effects of fresh flooding in southern areas of Pakistan and urged the government to urgently spend at least two per cent of its district budget on disaster risk reduction measures...
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