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This poster illustrates an earthquake drill for middle-level school children.

Educational materials

This poster illustrates an earthquake drill for middle-level school children.

Educational materials

This poster illustrates an earthquake drill for middle-level school children.

Educational materials

This poster presents earthquake drills as practised in Iranian schools.

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This paper published in Earthquake Disaster Risk Management aims to develop an appropriate earthquake disaster management system for Iranian schools with a main focus on non-structural problems of schools during disasters.

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The UNISDR secretariat launches this new publication featuring nine National Platform case studies in an effort to inspire and support the birth of new National Platforms, and also to strengthen existing ones. Governments increasingly recognize the need

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A persistent multi-year drought in Central and Southwest Asia has affected close to 60 million people as of November 2001. Chronic political instability in many parts of this region and the recent military action in Afghanistan have further complicated

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