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Start managing disaster threat or risk development gains: Experts
2015-03-17 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: When Typhoon Haiyan sent storm surges and high winds across the islands of the central Philippines in November 2013, it wrecked homes, schools, hospitals and roads, as well as killing more than 6,000 people. "The investment that was put into the community - from the point of view of the families that were affected - was all gone, and we have to rebuild again," said Dinky Soliman, Secretary of the Philippines' Department of Social Welfare and Development. Her country has since learned the importance...
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NEC Provides Disaster Control System with Crowd Behavior Analysis Technology in Tokyo
2015-03-16 11:31:15| Industrial Newsroom - All News for Today
- Detects changes in crowd behavior and promotes security - TOKYO - NEC Corporation (NEC; TSE: 6701) has won an order from Toshima Ward, Tokyo for a Comprehensive Disaster Control System construction project, which will incorporate one of the world's first(1) crowd behavior analysis technologies(2) that utilizes...
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Aid workers struggle with scale of Vanuatu disaster
2015-03-16 03:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: Aid agencies said Monday (Mar 16) conditions in cyclone-ravaged Vanuatu were among the most challenging they have ever faced with fears of disease rife, as the Pacific nation's shocked president said climate change was partly to blame for the devastation. Relief flights continued arriving in the battered capital Port Vila after Severe Tropical Cyclone Pam tore through on Friday night packing wind gusts of up to 320km/h. But workers on the ground said there was no way to distribute desperately...
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UN disaster meeting opens tsunami-hit Japan
2015-03-14 03:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence-France Presse: Policymakers gathered for a ten-yearly meeting on disaster risk reduction on Saturday (Mar 14), with hopes high that the conference in tsunami-hit Japan might provide a springboard for efforts to tackle natural disasters and costly climate change. The meeting came as a huge tropical cyclone smashed into Vanuatu in the South Pacific, terrifying residents and causing fears Saturday that dozens of people may have died. UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said he had met the president of Vanuatu that...
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Q&A: Integrating science to reduce disaster risk
2015-03-13 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
SciDevNet: The goal of the UN's third conference on disaster risk reduction, which starts tomorrow in Sendai, Japan, is to agree new guidelines for how nations can reduce the devastation caused by tsunamis, earthquakes and other disasters. The ten-year Hyogo Framework for Action (HFA), an international agreement that has guided these activities for the past decade, is due to be replaced by these guidelines, which are informally called HFA2. This may even be legally binding, depending on the result of negotiations...
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