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World Conference on Disaster Reduction opens in Kobe |
18 Jan 2005 | Press release |
Remembering Kobe: ten years later |
17 Jan 2005 | Press release |
Interview with Jose Rubiera, meteorologist from CubaJose Rubiera is the director of the Centro Nacional de pronosticos del Instituto de Meteorologia de Cuba and the weather forecaster for the main Cuban TV channel. UNISDR asked him a few questions about the importance of communication in disaster reduction, a topic that will be discussed at the World Conference on Disaster Reduction in Kobe next January. |
10 Jan 2005 | News briefs |
10 preliminary lessons learned from the Indian Ocean tsunami of 26 December 2004 |
7 Jan 2005 | Press release |
UN join forces to implement early warning systems in tsunami-ravaged countries |
29 Dec 2004 | Press release |
Interview with Julio Kuroiwa, scientific advisor and authorJulio Kuroiwa, is a professor emeritus of the National University of Engineering, Lima, Peru. He has been a consulting engineer for 35 years, and is the author of 100 papers on natural and technological disasters. He has written four books on disaster prevention and risk reduction. In 1990, his contributions were recognized when he was awarded the United Nations Sasakawa Award for disaster reduction. We asked him a few questions while he was visiting Geneva to present a new English version of his book “Disaster reduction: Living in harmony with nature”. |
27 Dec 2004 | News briefs |
Indian Ocean countries unprepared for ten metre "walls of water" that wiped out coastal communities following Asia earthquake |
27 Dec 2004 | Press release |
Bam: one year after - a lesson learned on building reinforcement |
20 Dec 2004 | Press release |
Disaster reduction on the agenda of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change in Buenos Aires |
3 Dec 2004 | Press release |
The Philippines: yet another tragedy due to environmental degradation |
1 Dec 2004 | Press release |
Regional consultative meeting aims at reducing risk in Central Asia |
1 Dec 2004 | Press release |
Information Note: May-October 2004Summary of the work of UNISDR secretariat in its mandated areas for the period May-October 2004. |
1 Nov 2004 | News briefs |
Natural disasters: rich countries also pay their toll |
26 Oct 2004 | Press release |
2004 International Day for Disaster Reduction |
13 Oct 2004 | Press release |
Interview with Alhasanne Adama Diella, hydro-meteorological expertAn estimated 100 million dollars was needed to fight the swarms of locusts through west Africa in 2004. UNISDR spoke with Alhasanne Adama Diallo, Director of the regional center of the Hydrometeorological Institute of the Permanent Interstate Committee for Drought Control, about the locust problem. |
8 Oct 2004 | News briefs |
2004 winner of the UN Sasakawa Award for Disaster ReductionOmar Dario Cardona received the award for his global efforts on disaster reduction. Omar Dario Cardona is a Colombian earthquake engineer known internationally for his pioneering approaches to vulnerability reduction and risk management. He has just been selected by a jury composed of representatives of the five continents as the 2004 winner of the United Nations Sasakawa Award for Disaster Reduction. |
5 Oct 2004 | Press release |
Haiti: poverty generates disasters |
24 Sep 2004 | Press release |
254 million people affected by natural hazards in 2003: figures on the rise |
16 Sep 2004 | Press release |
UNESCO International Conference on Education - address by Sálvano Briceño, Director, UNISDR |
9 Sep 2004 | Statements & speeches |
Cuba: a model in hurricane risk management |
1 Sep 2004 | Press release |
Living with risk: a hundred positive examples of how people are making the world safer |
14 Jul 2004 | Press release |
20th session of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change - address by Salvano Briceno, Director, UNISDR |
16 Jun 2004 | Statements & speeches |
Information Note: November 2003-April 2004Summary of the work of UNISDR secretariat in its mandated areas from November 2003-April 2004. |
3 May 2004 | News briefs |
Integrating disaster risk reduction into development: a challenge for the future |
4 Apr 2004 | Press release |
Public forum on catastrophic floods - statement by Sálvano Briceño, Director, UNISDR |
23 Mar 2004 | Statements & speeches |
Living with floods: UN guidelines offer decision-makers hope to reduce flood losses |
22 Mar 2004 | Press release |
UNDP launch of Global Report "Reducing disaster risk" - speech by Sálvano Briceño, Director, UNISDR |
3 Feb 2004 | Statements & speeches |
Can we avoid another Bam tragedy in the future? |
9 Jan 2004 | Press release |
Japan to host World Conference on Disaster Reduction |
11 Dec 2003 | Press release |
Information Note: April-October 2003Summary of the work of UNISDR secretariat in its mandated areas between April and October 2003. |
3 Nov 2003 | News briefs |
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The Fourth Session of the Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction will take place in Geneva, Switzerland in May 2013.
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