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Sri Lanka hosts major international conference on building resilience to disasters

The international conference is hoped to gather academics, practitioners, professionals and policy makers concerned with interdisciplinary approaches to disaster risk reduction, and the development of sustainable communities and cities, reports the Sunday Times...

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Ciudadanos provocan riesgo de desastres, no la naturaleza

Juan Manuel Rodríguez Esteves, investigador del Colegio de la Frontera Norte en México afirmó que el riesgo de desastre no es algo natural sino social. Una lluvia de una pulgada que cae sobre la ciudad es un fenómeno natural, pero el desastre que provoca no lo es...

El Mexicano - Gran Diario Regional
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Pakistan: Disaster-hit children portray woes through art

During a recent exhibition of art work by flood-affected childrenin Islamabad, Brigadir Sajid Naeem from the National Disaster Management Authority stressed the need to strengthen disaster response and disaster risk reduction...

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Philippines: Automated weather stations to help mitigate disasters

The Automated Weather Station is capable of measuring rainfall, wind speed, air pressure, wind direction, relative humidity, air temperature and other weather parameters that will help provide accurate weather forecasts. It will also help in monitoring flood and typhoons reports PIA...

Philippine Information Agency
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Nigeria: NEMA warns South-South to prepare for climate-related hazards

'We must do everything possible to build the resilience of the people and communities to the negative impacts of floods, windstorms, ocean surge, diseases among others' said Alhaji Sani-Sidi, Director-General of the National Emergency Management Agency. Flooding has spread across the country since the start of the rainy season, reports Vanguard...

Vanguard Media Limited
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Los modelos climáticos prevén un aumento de la intensidad y diversidad de incendios a medio y largo plazo

El director del Observatorio de la Sostenibilidad en España ha señalado a Europa Press que frente al cambio climático hay que apostar en primer lugar por políticas de mitigación y de reducción de emisiones de gases de efecto invernadero, para posteriormente ejecutar políticas de adaptación...

Europapress
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Indonesian government relocates volcano-displaced

The Indonesian government has begun temporarily relocating more than 5,000 people displaced by the eruption of Mount Lokon on the northern part of Sulawesi Island and currently housed in four schools in the town of Tomohon, reports IRIN...

The New Humanitarian
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Plan International calls for better integration of the needs of adolescent girls in climate change and disaster risk reduction

The findings presented in Plan International's new report, 'Weathering the Storm: Adolescent Girls and Climate Change', are based on interviews with girls involved in programmes in Ethiopia and Bangladesh, and highlight why their needs should be addressed in climate change and disaster risk reduction policymaking and programming...

Plan International (PI)