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Geneva, Switzerland – Children make up more than half the population in countries predicted to be most affected by climate change and are facing increasing impacts from tumultuous events. It is estimated that as many as 175 million children a year will soon be affected by disasters.
To help make children’s voi…
Xinhua reports that as China commemorates the anniversary of the Wenchuan earthquake in Sichuan province, also designated as National Disaster Reduction Day in China, it is timely to reflect on how China can reduce the risk of such devastation in the future.
The World Reconstruction Conference has launched a discussion forum ahead of the conference which will take place as part of the Global Platform for Disaster Reduction, in Geneva, Switzerland from 10-13 May 2011. Please share your knowledge and experience at the WRC Discussion Forum.
This journal focuses on the environment and disaster related issues in the Asian region. It provides a forum to communicate research findings, not only through academic research, but also incorporating field based action research. It aims to establish academic linkages of field practices with specific emphasis on environment and disaster management in t…
Global reinsurance giant Swiss Re has urged the country's governments to cover the rising damages bill using insurance instruments such as 'catastrophe bonds' rather than one-off disaster levies, reports Reuters.
"We would like to see some form of insurance from government rather than a levy after the event," said Mark Senkevics, head of Swiss Re in Au…
"Disaster mitigation is crucial. It is far more cost-effective to improve homes before natural hazards become disasters," reminds Jonathan T.M. Reckford, the chief executive officer of Habitat for Humanity International, to the Huffington Post.
"Today, on World Habitat Day, as we recognize that everyone should have the opportunity to live in decent and…
By Ry Beville
The earthquake and subsequent tsunami that struck northeastern Japan on March 11 was perhaps the most widely recorded natural disaster in human history. Images of the combined destructive effects, from the nuclear-power plant crisis to devastated coastal cities, have reached hundreds of millions of people via internet, television and prin…
In this Op-ed for Nikkei Weekly, Mika Shimizu and Allen Clark consider the term 'resilience' and its different acceptations in the light of the loss and devastation of the Great East Japan Earthquake, "these lessons related to resilience need to be learned to inject resilience-based approaches to disaster management into public policy, in preparation fo…
Talking to Margareta Wahistrom, the special representative of the UN secretary general for disaster risk reduction, Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani said the early warning system would help the government reduce loss of human lives, property and infrastructure to a great deal, as per Xinhua.
Ms. Margareta Wahistrom said that the UN would pro…
The Republic of China Red Cross Society will continue a US$3.1 million project to help with healthcare and disaster risk reduction in five tsunami-hit countries as part of the NT$700 million (US$24.14 million) raised by the Republic of China Red Cross Society to help with post-disaster relief projects, including 47 percent used in rehabilitation work in…
In Portuguese:
Brasília – O Diário Oficial da União publicou nesta quinta-feira (13/01) a Medida Provisória número 522, de 12/01/2011, abrindo crédito extraordinário de R$ 700 milhões em favor do Ministério da Integração Nacional para atendimento às vitimas de desastres no país e ações de recuperação de danos.
Os recursos de transferência voluntária se…
On the eve of the first anniversary of the devastating earthquake that killed 220,000 Haitians and made 1.5 million others homeless, the United Nations today looked back at a year of achievements, albeit at times spotty, and forward to the enormous challenges still ahead.
In a statement issued by his spokesman, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon noted that…
Islamabad - Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani Tuesday stressed “concerted efforts” for early completion of the remaining Rs 100 billion worth of projects in the earthquake affected areas. Addressing a conference of International Donors and Sponsors Conference here at the PM Secretariat, Prime Minister Gilani said the “untiring sense of commitm…
'Disasters, as well as subsequent relief and recovery activities, have significant impacts on agro-biodiversity, including diversity of crops and their varieties that may exist in a farming system,' a researcher at the Nairobi-based International Institute of Tropical Agriculture and new study's lead author, told SciDevNet.
Rashid Khalikov, head of the Geneva branch of the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, said in an interview that the OCHA intends to use its office in Kobe to expand its relations with Japan, in an effort to improve disaster preparedness worldwide, reports the Japan Times. The Kobe office will study how "we can benefit from the nati…