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Canada: Caribbean disaster risk management fund seeks to help communities reduce risk

Leslie John Walling, Coordinator of the Fund, described this new regional facility as 'responsive, results-based and community centred'...
Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management Agency
Canadian International Development Agency
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Caribbean disaster management conference demands that region prepares, not respond to disasters

'Vulnerability has been compounded by the frequency and severity of hazards,' stated Jeremy Collymore of CDERA...
Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management Agency
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Last straw: integrating natural disaster mitigation with environmental management

Disaster Risk Management Working Paper Series, no. 5.

This paper examines the ways in which natural resources management and environmental degradation affect natural hazard risk, and makes a preliminary assessment of the importance of such linkages and

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Regional disaster risk strategy to be developed

Tourism and disaster management stakeholders across the Caribbean are collaborating to implement a master plan to protect the region's tourism industry against the impact of natural disasters....
Caribbean360.com
Guanaja Island: photo coutesty of NASA/JSC
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Experts discuss coastal environmental challenges at annual meeting

ISDR system partner Caribbean Disaster Emergency Response Agency (CDERA) to participate in a panel on challenges for the Caribbean’s coastal tourism environment at the 10th annual Caribbean conference on sustainable tourism development...
Antigua Sun, Sun Printing & Publishing Ltd.

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