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Teaching guide I Environmental Education - The environment and I

This textbook for teachers of the first cycle of basic education in El salvador offers them basic knowledge on environmental themes, including games, experiments, ideas for school activities in order to build capacities and awareness relating to nature

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Linking disaster risk reduction and poverty reduction: good practices and lessons learned

This publication seeks to highlight initiatives that have successfully linked poverty reduction and disaster risk reduction in various parts of the world. It features several projects and initiatives that show how DRR can be integrated into poverty

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Presentan plataforma contra riesgos

Un equipo multidisciplinario conforma desde ayer la Plataforma Nacional de Reducción del Riesgo a Desastres, cuyo propósito es crear un foro permanente en el que se discutirá cómo hacer frente a los problemas generados por situaciones de riesgo en el país....
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Drought in El Salvador: response and mitigation

Irregular rains from 1998 until winter 2001 - particularly in the east of El Salvador - seriously damaged the crops of families on subsistence incomes. Other natural disasters and an economic crisis further aggravated the situation. To reverse the effects

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Activities in support of the Hurricane Mitch reconstruction program

As part of the U.S. Government’s program to assist Central America in the recovery from Hurricane Mitch, the USGS conducted a $14.15 million program of activities in Honduras, Nicaragua, El Salvador, and Guatemala. This effort was designed to strengthen

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Activities in El Salvador in support of the U.S. Hurricane Mitch reconstruction program: a final report submitted to the U.S. Agency for International Development

On October 25, 1998, Hurricane Mitch, the fourth most intense Atlantic Ocean hurricane on record, slammed into the Central American coastline. This report compiled by the USGS compiles a wide variety of data and information in El Salvador including

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Assessment of landslide hazards resulting from the February 13, 2001, El Salvador earthquake

On February 13, 2001, a magnitude 6.5 earthquake occurred about 40 km East-Southeast of the capital city of San Salvador. It was the second major damaging earthquake to strike El Salvador in 1 month. On January 13, 2001, a moment magnitude (Mw) 7.6

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Terremotos en El Salvador 2001

This detailed report analyzes El Salvador overall situation before the 2001 earthquake and assesses the effects of the disaster, specifically for the health services and for the salubrity of the environment. It also considers the management of the

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