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Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said that strengthening disaster risk reduction to avert crises caused by climate change will remain one of his top priority during his second term as head of the UN...
The Economic Times reports that the Indian external affairs minister has called upon the international community to take measures to assist Small Island Developing States address climate change through a process of adaptation...
This article - published by the Economic Times, of India - stresses the need to make disaster management part of the new government's agenda...
Professor Santosh Kumar of the National Institute of Disaster Management gives his perspective on disaster management and preparedness in India....
A look at India's level of preparedness in the face of a disaster: “We need to shift focus from the visibles to the invisibles...disaster response measures only have short-term gain and do not result in risk reduction...”
With the number of disasters that take place in India’s neighbouring countries, there is a great need for contingency planning on India’s part...
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