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Margareta Wahlström about disaster risk reduction

Disaster readiness is one of the seven key areas needing urgent attention that have been identified in the context of the 2012 UN Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20).

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Thu, 21/06/2012 - 15:21
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UN News Centre
Processed on Jun 21st 2012

G-Science statement calls to minimize effects of disasters

Leaders of the global science community have issued joint statements to the world leaders meeting at the 38th G-8 Summit that started today.

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Fri, 18/05/2012 - 08:45
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BBC News
Processed on May 18th 2012

The RIVAF project: Understanding Poverty Assessment through Disaster Impacts

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Processed on May 15th 2012

UN calls for quicker responses to reduce impacts of disasters

 The UN reiterated calls on Tuesday for the world to respond quickly to current worldwide disasters and streamline efforts to tackle their inevitable impacts.

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Wed, 11/05/2011 - 11:51
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The Jakarta Post
Processed on May 11th 2011

International Charter Space and Major Disasters

The International Charter aims at providing a unified system of space data acquisition and delivery to those affected by natural or man-made disasters through Authorized Users.

Processed on Feb 16th 2011

The 7th EUREGEO Congress on European Regional Geoscientific Cartography and Information Systems

Time and Duration
Venue City: 
Bologna
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Date: 
12/06/2011 - 15/06/2011
Venue Country: 
Italy
More Information Link: 
http://www.eurogeosurveys.org/the-7th-euregeo-congress-on-european-regional-geoscientific-cartography-and-information-systems.html
Language of event: 
English

The importance of geosciences has increased steadily and rapidly over recent decades, with problems arising at local, regional, national, and international levels.

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11.3465
Processed on Feb 16th 2011

International Charter Space and Major Disasters

Aims

Processed on Feb 7th 2011

ReliefWeb: World Requirements for Emergency Response (2005-2008)

A new reliefweb product shows the relative scale of major emergencies since 2005 based on funding requirements for humanitarian response.

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Tue, 15/09/2009 - 18:00
Processed on Sep 23rd 2009

Seminario Internactional: "La Tecnología satelital de observación de la Tierra en la Evaluación, Monitoreo y Manejo de Desastres Naturales en la Agricultura", 23-24 Septiembre de 2009, Buenos Aires, Argentina

El Programa Iberoamericano de Ciencia y Tecnologia para el desarrollo (CYTED) en colaboración con el INTA convocan a especialistas, profesionales y técnicos usuarios de las tecnolog&i

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Wed, 05/08/2009 - 18:40
Processed on Aug 5th 2009