Slight inattention can cause a great disaster.

This is the largest metropolitan area disaster in decades, and it was not a natural disaster it was a disaster of engineering.

First, the tsunami disaster illustrated the lack of a systematic disaster management framework, including disaster mitigation measures, in many countries.

That was a disaster.

Recognizing that natural disasters are a cause of displacement and that the consequences of hazards can be prevented or substantially mitigated by integrating disaster risk reduction strategies into national development policies and programmes,

Sami's show was a disaster.

The Asian Disaster Reduction Centre is a specialized organization for disaster reduction based in Kobe, Japan.

A Global Strategy for Disaster Risk

Relevant United Nations organizations and donor Governments should strengthen the capacity of disaster prone countries in disaster mitigation, preparedness, response and post disaster recovery within a disaster risk reduction framework, by supporting relevant initiatives in this field.

We need a comprehensive strategy to achieve such disaster management including early warning systems and disaster preparedness plans.

At the beginning, it was a disaster.

A typical disaster story disease, corruption, poverty.

We have committed 425 million towards a comprehensive package of disaster relief measures for disaster victims and reconstruction assistance.

a) Integrate a gender perspective in post disaster relief, recovery, rehabilitation and reconstruction efforts and ensure that women take an active and equal role in all phases of disaster management and post disaster recovery and

Hardly a week goes by without a major disaster.

Such a vote would be a recipe for disaster disaster for Security Council reform, for United Nations reform and for international peace and cooperation.

Earthquakes, cyclones, floods and droughts cause more victims and damage in poor areas, where people do not have the means or the capability to foresee and prevent situations of that type or to respond appropriately when a disaster occurs.

It was actually a terrible disaster for Princeton.

Disaster relief is essentially a backwards political campaign.

Can I tell you, airports are a disaster.

Several countries found it practical to use disaster resistant hospitals as an example of a benchmark for reducing overall disaster risk.

And so, if you have that gene, and you see a lot of violence in a certain situation, this is the recipe for disaster, absolute disaster.

In cooperation with the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, ESCAP organized a side event on disaster prevention and regional cooperative mechanisms in space technology applications for disaster management during the World Conference on Disaster Reduction.

Indian Ocean disaster risk reduction for a safer world

Indian Ocean disaster risk reduction for a safer future

Three draft resolutions have been submitted for action today the first on the South Asian earthquake disaster (A 60 L.18), the second on the Chernobyl disaster (A 60 L.19) and the third on the Indian Ocean tsunami disaster (A 60 L.20).

The convening today of the Kobe World Conference on Disaster Reduction is an opportunity to draw up a framework for a disaster reduction strategy for this century.

Integrating a gender perspective in post disaster relief, recovery, rehabilitation and reconstruction efforts, particularly in the aftermath of the Indian Ocean tsunami disaster

We must improve the disaster prevention and mitigation capabilities as well as the capability to conserve and better use water resources in order to make new contributions to the development of modern agricultural and to the cause of building a well off society.

Disaster management is a complex portfolio, and though most countries have an established national disaster management agency, the magnitude of the disaster is sometimes way beyond their capabilities hence the apparent state of paralysis which follows.

20. Welcomes the global review of disaster reduction initiatives coordinated by the secretariat of the International Strategy for Disaster Reduction, and emphasizes the importance of periodic review as a means of discussing disaster trends, assessing policies aimed at mitigating the impact of disaster and offering examples of successful initiatives

Disaster preparedness

Disaster response

Disaster recovery

Disaster Relief

That was a national mission, integrating space applications along with other relevant information for disaster warning, disaster mitigation and efficient management of hazardous events.

You donate money to a cause, and you become emotionally involved in that cause.

Fearing that a great disaster is going to befall them.

Fearing that a great disaster is going to befall them.

(iii) A regional instrument on disaster management and emergency response

(c) International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (continued) (A 60 180)

(c) International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (continued) (A 59 228)

In this connection, a special session on the recent earthquake and tsunami disaster, convened at the World Conference to review that disaster from a risk reduction perspective, delivered the Common Statement of the Special Session on Indian Ocean Disaster Risk Reduction for a Safer Future as its outcome.

After 20 years of operation, the organization remains tiny, especially when compared to organizations like the Red Cross, which primarily do disaster relief work. People are willing to donate hundreds of millions of dollars to help people after a disaster even after a disaster in a wealthy country like Japan but are unwilling to invest anything like the same amount to save lives before a predictable disaster strikes.

A. The role of the International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction