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Key Points Radiation emergencies have health risks to those directly affected. People can be exposed to a radiation source with or without necessarily becoming contaminated with radioactive materials. They cause a high level of public concern which may often…

The lives of two million people – over half of them children - are at severe risk from disease as devastating flooding continues in southern Pakistan, aid agency Save the Children warns. As rains continue to fall,…

Pacific Studies Series Executive Summary The Pacific developing member countries (DMCs) of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) are a diverse array of countries with widely varying topographies, cultures, and economies, but generally characterized by their small physical size…

The European Commission and ASEAN set out to reinforce joint disaster response and risk reduction Brussels, 12 September 2011 – The European Commission and ASEAN are keen to engage in closer cooperation in regional disaster management. The…

Norishige Onodera, the principal of Shishiori Primary School is a chatty, jokey character in his late 50’s. But when he takes us out to the balcony of his school to show us where the Tsunami came…

By Ashfaq Yusufzai | From the Newspaper PESHAWAR, Sept 7: The government has decided to take action against the parents refusing polio immunisation of their children in Peshawar district, District Coordination Officer Siraj Ahmed Khan told this…

VIENTIANE, 7 September 2011 (IRIN) - Heavy flooding during the northern summer, affecting 10 of the country's 17 provinces, has underlined the need for stronger disaster-management efforts, say experts. Tropical storm Haima struck central and northern Laos…

JOHANNESBURG, 5 September 2011 (IRIN) - With the media spotlight on the drought and famine in the Horn of Africa, governments and aid organizations have come under fire for their lack of a developmental approach, but…

Outcomes of the fifth UNU-EHS Summer Academy of the Munich Re Foundation Chair on Social Vulnerability 25 – 31 July 2010, Hohenkammer, Germany Introduction Climate change due to greenhouse gas emissions is now, at some level, a fact. IPCC…

Appeal No. MAA00029 with links to the following appeals: No. MAA00019 – Shelter and Settlements No. MAA00021 – Community Preparedness and Risk Reduction No. MAA00028 – Logistics No. MAA00040 – Disaster Services In brief Programme purpose: In line with…