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Displaying 3 of about 3 resultsThis issue includes:
Editorial -
Voices & Ideas:
- Chosica: Prevention Bears Fruit
- Crisis or Mitigation?: The role of relationships between institutions and communities in disaster recovery assistance
- Contingency plans for coping with disasters: A need that cannot be postponed
- Agents of Change: The Role of Children and Youth in Disaster
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Assessing damage caused by natural disasters in the Pacific - a prerequisite for recovery and rehabilitation efforts - is a major challenge. To support Pacific island countries to assess the economic impact of disasters, SOPAC, ESCAP and UNISDR are organising a training workshop on the economic assessment of disasters in the Pacific.
This is a course d…
Urban areas are central to the functioning of national economies and societies. They concentrate people, economic production, and decision-making institutions, but they can also result in a high concentration of vulnerability to climatic and geological hazards such as earthquakes, landslides, hurricanes and floods.
The highly urbanized nations of the…