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Towards a culture of prevention: disaster risk reduction begins at school, good practices and lessons learned

This publication provides 35 good practices and lessons learned as concrete examples of how to make children safer in their classrooms and educate them about disasters.

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Prepared for a shock

'What happens when a school really lets its pupils down: when the walls collapse sideways and the heavy tiled roof pancakes down in a couple of seconds? ...'
Guardian, the (UK)
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Real Risk

A fully illustrated book Real Risk offers perspectives, case studies and analysis on disaster risk reduction and mitigation in the light of major natural disasters that have occurred since the publication of Know Risk in early 2005. It brings together the

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Cultural heritage and natural disasters: risk preparedness and the limits of prevention

This special volume deals exclusively with disasters, a subject of particular relevance in view of the threat to cultural heritage by global climate change.
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The protection of the architectural heritage against natural disasters

This proceedings includes inter alia the specific outputs of the meeting which included: an inventory of the relevant technical, legal and administrative measures already current in Europe.

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