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'The most important thing is ‘disaster imagination'. Too many people in our nation cannot imagine what might happen to them and if you can’t imagine something, you cannot prepare for it,' warned Kimuro Meguro, director of the International Centre for Urban Safety Engineering at Tokyo University...
United Nations Secretary-General, Ban Ki-moon, writes for the Financial Times about the importance that disaster risk management must be given in countries...
Mure Dickie and Clive Cookson examine for the Financial Times the divisions over what really constitutes radiation danger exposed by the Fukushima crisis and question, 'at what point it will be safer to move a population away from the radiation'...
'There is debate about whether man-made or 'natural' disasters have a longer-term impact, and whether markets can learn from past experience and become more robust when faced with 'black swans'', writes Nyree Stewart for the FT Adviser. More on the cost of disasters at the Global Platform...
Call for accountability: '...We will not tolerate waste, inefficiency or a failure to focus on poverty reduction' said Andrew Mitchell, UK international development secretary referring to a review of multilateral agencies published this week by DFID, reports the FT...
Indonesia's government official said that the costly early warning system established after the 2004 tsunami failed to alert authorities to the danger of tidal waves that killed 282 people this week because the detection sensors had been vandalised...
Fiona Harvey highlights the potential impact of climate change on the built environment in the UK and explores ways in which cities can adapt...
A Financial Times editorial illustrates how the impact of 'natural' disasters depends more on a state’s capacity to prepare for and respond to disasters than the forces of nature that these phenomena unleash...
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