UK: Disaster plan, cities need to adapt for climate change - FT

7 Sep 2010, FT

Fiona Harvey highlights the potential impact of climate change on the built environment in the UK and explores ways in which cities can adapt...

• Haiti: 230,000 deaths, New Zealand: 0 deaths. Why?

  8 Sep 2010, NZ Herald

  'With planning, preparation, community support, [..] it is possible to come through a major natural disaster, without major loss of life, and with the resiliency to build again, better than before' writes Jesse Dykstra, Natural Hazards Research Centre at Canterbury University...

• UNDP Fiji: Communities must be first to react to a disaster

  7 Sep 2010, UNDP

  'This plan will help the community to be better prepared to meet a disaster. We hear a lot about recovery after an earthquake, a tsunami or a cyclone, but little about prevention and mitigation' said Sunil Gurung, United Nations Volunteer and disaster risk management specialist...