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Reuters AlertNet is a humanitarian news network which aims to keep relief professionals and the wider public up-to-date on humanitarian crises around the globe. It was started in 1997 by Reuters Foundation - an educational and humanitarian trust - to place Reuters' core skills of speed, accuracy an
http://www.alertnet.org
Keywords: Conflicts. Terrorism, Development. Poverty, Humanitarian assistance, In Focus, In Focus 2008, In Focus 2008 Week 21, Natural disasters,
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Assessing vulnerability before, during and after a natural disaster in fragile regions : case study of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami in Sri Lanka and Indonesia / Jörn Birkmann. - Helsinki: UNU/WIDER, 2008. - 22 p. (Research paper / United Nations University. World Institute for Development Economics
http://www.niaslinc.dk/gateway_to_asia/nordic_webpublications/x506037346.pdf
Keywords: Finland, Indonesia, Natural disasters, Nordic Perspective, Publications, South Asia, Southeast Asia, Sri Lanka, Tsunamis,
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Today the World Bank offered up to US$250 million in the aftermath of Cyclone Sidr to help millions of Bangladeshis recover and to strengthen the country’s disaster mitigation systems. The assistance could be used to support short-term needs like food imports, the rapid procurement of medical suppli
http://web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/COUNTRIES/SOUTHASIAEXT/0,,contentMDK:21...
Keywords: Bangladesh, Development. Poverty, Humanitarian assistance, In Focus, In Focus 2007, In Focus 2007 Week 48, South Asia,
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Latestreports on the earthquake in Sichuan, China, May 2008, from BBC.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_depth/asia_pacific/2008/china_quake/default.stm
Keywords: China, Earthquakes, East Asia, In Focus, In Focus 2008, In Focus 2008 Week 21, Natural disasters,
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The BBC speical report on the situation in Burma after the cyclone Nargis with updated news.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_depth/asia_pacific/2008/burma_cyclone/default.stm
Keywords: Burma - Myanmar, In Focus, In Focus 2008, In Focus 2008 Week 24, Natural disasters, Southeast Asia,
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Produced by: World Bank (2008) This primer is a guide for local governments in East Asia to help them understand the concepts and consequences of climate change and how climate change consequences contribute to urban vulnerabilities. It describes what is being done by city governments in East Asia
http://siteresources.worldbank.org/EASTASIAPACIFICEXT/Resources/climatecities_fu...
Keywords: Climatology, East Asia, Environment, Natural disasters,
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At Scidev's Agriculture & Environment: Tropical cyclones site Greg O'Hare explains the what, why, when and how of cyclones, and reviews their effects in South Asia. 'Tropical cyclone' is the general term for low-pressure atmospheric circulations in the tropics. These have anticlockwise rotating win
http://www.scidev.net/en/agriculture-and-environment/tropical-cyclones-1/feature...
Keywords: Climatology, Environment, Natural disasters, South Asia,
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This project places an emphasis on accumulation of knowledge related to environments and disaster prevention. One of the expected outcomes is a system to improve human security in the Asian region with the implementation of a disaster management system Principal Investigator : Hiromichi FUKUI Fac
http://www.digitalasia.sfc.keio.ac.jp/index_en.php
Keywords: Environment, Natural disasters, Nature conservation,
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Magisteruppsats (2005) En katastrofsituation är alltid unik och dess konsekvenser beroende av händelsens omfattning. När katastrofen är ett faktum är dock alltid information och kommunikation en viktig del av katastrofhanteringen och den informationstörst som uppstår gör medierna till en viktig part
http://www.diva-portal.org/diva/getDocument?urn_nbn_se_liu_diva-3377-1__fulltext...
Keywords: Mass media, Natural disasters, News. Media, Newspapers, Nordic Perspective, Publications, South Asia, Southeast Asia, Sweden, Tsunamis,
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This paper written by Karin Hansson and Love Ekenberg of the Department of Computer and Systems Sciences at Stockholm University, looks at the problems caused by flooding in the Red River delta in Vietnam, and the difficulties faced, due to increased costs of flood defence repairs and costs to damag
http://dlc.dlib.indiana.edu/archive/00000830/
Keywords: Environment, Floods, Natural disasters, Nature conservation, Southeast Asia, Vietnam,
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