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UNISDR Terminology on Disaster Risk Reduction launched in three East Asian languages

Source(s): United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction - Regional Office for Asia and Pacific

 

The “2009 UNISDR Terminology on Disaster Risk Reduction” has been jointly published in Chinese, Japanese and Korean by the Cabinet Office of Japan (CAO), the National Emergency Management Agency of Korea (NEMA) and UNISDR . It was officially launched on the occasion of the first trilateral meeting on disaster management by China, Japan and the Republic of Korea in Kobe, Japan on 31 October 2009.

 

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