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Research and planning for sustainable cities should go hand in hand with rural development, according to Edwin Castellanos. He argues that recent initiatives related to climate change adaptation can help to breach the divide between urban planning for sustainability and rural development for poverty alleviation...
Kate Hawley, an economics research associate at the non-profit organisation ISET International in Colorado, United States gives a thorough overview of global resources on urban sustainability focusing on key networks, institutes, initiatives and reports, touching upon topics such as climate change, disaster risk reduction, extreme events, insurance, and more...
By establishing a uniform early warning and response mechanism and building national awareness on how to react to natural disasters, Sri Lanka can avoid needless loss of life, experts say, according to SciDevNet...
According to Pedro Basabe, senior programme officer at the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction, the draft makes 'significant improvements on the previous Hyogo text.' He also added that 'Science plays a more substantive role, not just in the priorities for action, but as a fundamental guiding principle'...
'If development goals aim for adaptation only, without aiming for disaster risk reduction across all hazards, then resilience cannot be achieved,' warns Ilan Kelman in his opinion piece in SciDevNet. He argues that 'Placing climate change within the wider contexts of disaster, development and sustainability will tackle both adaptation and mitigation, but not at the expense of other concerns'...
'Climate change is expected to disrupt traditional cropping calendars, so we need better prediction on the timing and volume of rainfall to better cope with water-induced disasters,' says Madhav Karki, senior researcher at the Institute for Social and Environmental Transition, Kathmandu...
The UN’s Third International Conference on Small Island Developing States (SIDS), in Apia, Samoa, on 1-4 September, will focus on critical areas where new global partnerships are needed, including climate change, oceans, waste, sustainable tourism and disaster risk reduction...
Alejandro De La Campa, director of the US Federal Emergency Management Agency’s Caribbean office said: 'We hope never to have to use all the plans we made, to send the SMS we write or to relocate people in a rush. But it is like having fire insurance at home: it’s preferable not to use it, but you have to have it'...
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