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Bookmark or Share- Disaster prevention, risk reduction, critical to sustainable future: UN ...The world will experience 1.5 medium to large-scale disasters every day through the end of the decade, unless countries ramp up action on prevention and risk reduction, UN Deputy...
- Hazard Mitigation Assistance Grants - FEMA.govFEMA's hazard mitigation assistance provides funding for eligible long-term solutions that reduce the impact of disasters in the future. Mitigation planning and actions break the cycle of disaster damage, reconstruction, and repeated damage.
- Hazard Mitigation Planning - FEMA.govHazard mitigation planning reduces loss of life and property by minimizing the impact of disasters. It begins with state, tribal and local governments identifying natural disaster risks and vulnerabilities that are common in their area.
- Climate Change, Disasters and Their Mitigation | United NationsScientific evidence collected for decades indicates that climate mitigation, especially through reducing fossil fuel consumption and halting deforestation, is vital to ensuring the long-term ...
- Disaster Risk Management Overview: Development news, research, data ...Mainstreaming disaster risk management into development planning can help lower the impact of disasters on property and lives. Disasters hurt the poor and vulnerable the most. More than one-third of the world’s poor live in multi-hazard zones, and low-income countries account for more than 70 percent of the world’s disaster “hotspots.”
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