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Bindu N. Lohani, in an opinion piece on the Jakarta Post, writes that the meeting in Sendai, Japan presents world leaders perhaps one of the biggest opportunities to build the infrastructure and other defenses the world needs to withstand the worst ravages of typhoons, earthquakes, droughts and other disasters...
Global policy makers should team up to help disaster-prone developing countries manage and anticipate disaster risks as mounting financial losses triggered by disasters will severely hamper their development sustainability, a newly launched UN report presented on Sunday during the Sendai UN World Conference suggested, reports Jakarta Post...
Southeast Asian agriculture and food system can learn from the collapse of a food industry as a result of climate extremes is the story of an Australian rice-production center, the Riverina region of southern New South Wales...
The private sector should be a key partner in international climate change decision-making, states an opinion piece in the Jakarta Post. Regan Suzuki Pairojmahakij maintains that ‘... rather than seeing the private sector only as a threat, we should also see it as a critical part of the solution.’...
Great progress has been achieved in rebuilding the lives of farmers in Aceh 10 years after the catastrophic Indian Ocean tsunami. However some agriculture and fisheries sector may recover temporarily as the tsunami aid legacy is declining...
Based on recent research on the 10-year tsunami recovery, four aspects within the government — tsunami risk understanding, disaster data openness and accessibility and integration of the tsunami risk map into spatial planning and policies —have produced solid achievements...
The tsunami’s greatest legacy though resides in the attention it drew to the issue of exposure to disaster risk in a way that no World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction could hope to achieve on its own, writes Margareta Wahlström in her opinion piece published in the Jakarta Post...
'Irrigation damage due to earthquakes and tsunamis has been seen in Aceh and West Sumatra. Damage due to vulnerability to floods has been witnessed in many more regions. With climate change in mind, the question is can Indonesian irrigation infrastructure and agricultural systems be resilient and stand against future climatic extremes?'...
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