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For the first time, twenty-three United Nations agencies and convention secretariats have combined their efforts and expertise to produce a collective World Water Development Report, offering a global overview of the state of the world’s freshwater

Careful preparations together with lessons learned from previous earthquakes limited the damage caused by the latest major tremor to hit northern Japan yesterday....

"It is very necessary for China and Japan, two seismically active countries, to strengthen exchanges and cooperation in this aspect," said the ministry's spokesman Liu Jianchao....

This book, revised and reprinted in 2005, contains true stories that illustrate how to survive-and how not to survive-a tsunami. It is meant for people who live, work, or play along coasts that tsunamis may strike. Such coasts surround most of the Pacific

'...we commit to support urgent actions to mainstream adaptation into broader development strategies and encourage developing countries themselves to integrate adaptation into their development policies'...

In an exchange between the leaders of Japan and the US, Mr. Fukuda stated 'I wish to step up cooperation between our two countries to build up cooperation in Asia on disaster prevention.'...

This brochure reports the activities of UNCRD, especially School Earthquake Safety Initiative (SESI), Housing Earthquake Safety Initiative (HESI) and Sustainability in Community-Based Disaster Management (CBDM) by Hyogo office.

This brief report presents economic Impacts of the Kobe and Marmara Earthquakes.