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Displaying 3 of about 3 resultsThis book was produced to mark the end of the International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction (IDNDR), a United Nations initiative to reduce the negative effects of natural disasters.
This volume communicates solutions to the problems associated with natural disasters, stimulating discussion and improvements in methods of protecting people and prop…
As General Assembly holds thematic debate, Secretary-General urges governments to integrate disaster risk reduction into development agendas
Faced with socio-economic fallout from increasingly frequent and severe disasters, Governments must invest in disaster risk reduction and weave it into their development agendas in order to save more lives and bui…
By Krissy Govertsen, PhD candidate, Interdisciplinary Engineering, Northeastern University; and Michael Kane, Assistant Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Northeastern University
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Long-term solutions require passive design
National efforts have been made to increase the resilience of the power grid and natural gas lines. However, th…