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While ASEAN’s purposes and goals touch on various sectors, such as economics, culture, and industry, its member-states have also declared that, as a regional grouping, they will promote regional peace, stability, mutual assistance, and collaboration
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Documents and publications
This paper asks to what extent learning has occurred with regard to COVID-19. That is, of past experience with pandemics, whether countries learned from the pandemic experience of others, or from their own experience with other types of emergencies.
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In order to help mainstream NBS, scientists have designed a probabilistic risk analysis framework able to address challenges of quantifying NBS. It considers multiple storm event types and can be applied to large river basins in data-scarce environments.
Nanyang Technological University
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Policies and plans
The Beijing Declaration is the outcome of the Belt and Road Ministerial Forum for International Cooperation in Disaster Risk Reduction and Emergency Management. 
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Singapore is at the forefront of nearly all countries that have formulated a long-term plan for managing climate change and is steadfastly implementing that plan.
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ASEAN State of Climate Change Report
Documents and publications
The ASEAN State of Climate Change Report (ASCCR) provides an overall outlook of the state of play of climate change issues in the ASEAN region.
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Almost 30 years ago, HÖRMANN Warnsysteme planned, produced and installed the nationwide siren warning system for Singapore and continues to maintain it to ensure its unrestricted availability.
HÖRMANN Warnsysteme
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Documents and publications
This guide serves as an initial source of information for those individuals preparing for disaster risk reduction activities or immediate deployment with Singapore partner responders in crisis.

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