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Play and learn to stop disasters: This online game teaches adults and children how to build safer villages and cities against disasters. Users learn through playing how the location and the construction materials of houses make a difference when disasters strike and how early warning systems, evacuation plans and education save lives.

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Tsunami warning!

This children’s booklet with cartoon-like illustrations describes what happens when an Alaskan earthquake causes a tsunami warning and evacuations to be issued in Alaska and in Hawaii. The International Coordinating Group for the Tsunami Warning System in

International Tsunami Information Center
Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization - Headquarters
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Tsunami, lessons learnt from Japanese story: inamura no hi (Sinhalese for children)

""Inamura no Hi"" means fire of rice sheaves. ""Inamura no Hi"" is a story of a man who noticed a precursor of a large tsunami at the earliest stage and led village inhabitants to a high ground by burning harvested rice sheaves. This story was based on a

Asian Disaster Reduction Center
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Tsunami, lessons learnt from Japanese story: inamura no hi (Malay for children)

""Inamura no Hi"" means fire of rice sheaves. ""Inamura no Hi"" is a story of a man who noticed a precursor of a large tsunami at the earliest stage and led village inhabitants to a high ground by burning harvested rice sheaves. This story was based on a

Asian Disaster Reduction Center
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Tsunami, lessons learnt from Japanese story: inamura no hi (Indonesian for children)

""Inamura no Hi"" means fire of rice sheaves. ""Inamura no Hi"" is a story of a man who noticed a precursor of a large tsunami at the earliest stage and led village inhabitants to a high ground by burning harvested rice sheaves. This story was based on a

Asian Disaster Reduction Center
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Tsunami, lessons learnt from Japanese story : inamura no hi (Bengali for children)

""Inamura no Hi"" means fire of rice sheaves. ""Inamura no Hi"" is a story of a man who noticed a precursor of a large tsunami at the earliest stage and led village inhabitants to a high ground by burning harvested rice sheaves. This story was based on a

Asian Disaster Reduction Center
Educational materials
Tsunami, lessons learnt from Japanese story: inamura no hi

"Inamura no Hi" means fire of rice sheaves. "Inamura no Hi" is a story of a man who noticed a precursor of a large tsunami at the earliest stage and led village inhabitants to a high ground by burning harvested rice sheaves. This story was based on a true

Asian Disaster Reduction Center
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There is no rug big enough to sweep the desert under (Lupo Alberto)

This comic book tells of drought on an animal farm. Albert the fox and his chicken girlfriend Martha present various ways of mitigating the effects of drought and combating desertification to the other animals. These include careful water management

United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD)
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Volcanoes (4th ed.)

The most affordable, informative text available on the intricate anatomy of volcanoes, this concise paperback is the ideal text for classes in geology, atmospheric science and geography. Illustrated with both art and photos from the author’s private

Bedford, Freeman and Worth Publisher, LLC

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