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Africa views - disaster risk reduction is a priority in East Africa

This view from Africa - from Kelly Hawrylyshyn, Disaster Risk Reduction Deputy Manager at Plan UK - addresses the Famine Early Warning Systems Network (FEWS Net) in East Africa and urges to take preventative action to address the real causes of this recurring problem...

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Gabon’s National Platform holds inaugural workshop, solutions for future disasters must go beyond humanitarian response

A three-day workshop took place in Libreville from 25-27 July to officially launch the activities of Gabon’s National Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction. There was a clear vision from the participants of the workshop that humanitarian response could not solve the problem of disasters.

United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction - Regional Office for Africa
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Tunis sous la menace d'inondations et de tempêtes

Le grand Tunis 'est soumis à de multiples risques naturels' révèle une étude de la Banque Mondiale chargée d’évaluer la vulnérabilité des villes côtières d’Afrique du Nord face au changement climatique et aux désastres naturels...

Econostrum.info
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Bangladesh and the Netherlands to share flood research

Flood-prone Bangladesh and the Netherlands are planning to exchange research findings and share experience on managing floods, which are projected to worsen because of climate change, reports SciDevNet...

Science and Development Network
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Focusing on women in post disaster initiatives

The impact of disaster varies from region to region and in one region, disasters do not affect the entire community equally. Even in a single community, it affects the male in one way and women in another way, usually in a much worse way, writes M Mizanur Rahman in an op-ed...

New Age
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Slow stirrings among conservatives on adaptation - just don't mention climate change

The New York Times reports on city officials and planners taking a slower, quieter approach to addressing climate change adaptation - an approach that works say those interviewed: they pursue climate risk reduction strategies, just don't mention 'climate change'. A question of language? ...

New York Times, the
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UNISDR’s parliamentarian initiative helping to move disaster risk reduction forward from political commitment to concrete action

Realizing the human and economic imperative to shift from a disaster response culture to one of prevention and risk reduction, parliamentarians from Africa, Asia, and Latin America are stepping up to the challenge.

United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR)
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Climate change and forest fires linked in new study

A study released this week predicts a grim future for the ecosystem in and around Yellowstone National Park (USA), reports the Huffington Post. The study concluded that rising temperatures associated with climate change could result in many more severe forest fires in the coming decades, reports the Huffington Post...

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