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Orissa seeks aid to fight natural disasters

The State Government of Orissa on Tuesday sought financial assistance of Rs 609 crore from the Centre to save the state from natural calamities caused by global warming....

Times of India, the
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Preparedness is essential to saving lives: EC provides € 27.325 million for disaster preparedness

In line with its commitment to support disaster risk reduction, the European Commission has allocated funds to improve the capacities of communities at risk in Central America, Central Asia and South East Asia...

European Commission’s Directorate-General for European Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations (DG ECHO)
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Global push for joint space-age weather forecast project

Australia's Governor-General has spoken to the leaders of China, Russia and the US about a joint "space-age" project for more accurate forecasts of floods, drought and weather...

Courier-Mail
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Know disaster, no disaster

Over 400 children participated in a two-day event aimed at raising awareness on disaster risk reduction...

India Together
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Red Cross Red Crescent and IRI forge partnership to save lives in face of climate change and its humanitarian impacts

Red Cross Red Crescent and IRI partnership set to address urgent "need to incorporate climate information into disaster-risk reduction and decision making"...

International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC)
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Disaster risk reduction: a development concern, a scoping study on links between disaster risk reduction, poverty and development

This Study is part of DFID’s strategic effort to assess the significance of disaster risk in its development work. It aims to explore evidence on linkages between poverty alleviation, development and disaster risk reduction, and to establish why disaster

Department for International Development
International Development UEA
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Annual disaster statistical review: numbers and trends 2006

This publication is an analysis of the disaster figures in 2006 compared to 2005 and 2000-04.

CRED has been publishing statistics on disasters every year since 1998, thanks to the generous support of the United States Agency for International Development

Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED)
United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR)
Université Catholique de Louvain, Institut de Recherche Santé et Société
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Natural disaster and disaster risk reduction measures: A desk review of costs and benefits

This draft report has been prepared by Environmental Resources Management on behalf of the Department for International Development. The objective of the report is to present a high-level, desk-based assessment of the economic costs of disasters, and of

Department for International Development
United Kingdom - government
Environmental Resources Management
Environmental Resources Management

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