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Disasters are not natural but the result of wrong decisions and mismanagement; funding for disaster risk reduction today will ...
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When the Indian Ocean tsunami reached Myanmar’s coast in 2004, the Moken people had already sought safety on higher ground.
Susann Baez Ullberg is Senior Analyst of the Centre for Crisis Management Research and Training at the Swedish Defence University, Stockholm, Sweden.Jeroen Warner is Associate Professor at Wageningen ...
Children are the most effective messengers of change. By adopting Little Chanakya for children and youth audiences, NDMA is ...
Propel your career forward with an accredited graduate certificate. Unlike most other programs that focus on management of natural disasters, Michigan Tech's on-campus Natural Hazards and Disaster ...