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Training and Capacity Building: Changing Mindsets |
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Knowledge is POWER
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Cooperation agreement |
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This is how the 2006-2007 campaign is being observed in the Americas |
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Hurricane Season 2007 |
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The Lisbon earthquake of November 1, 1755: The first “modern” disaster? |
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Risk management: A development issue |
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Social communication in risk management:
Concepts to be remembered and applied |
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Learning to prevent disasters – A local adaptation for Maipú, Mendoza, Argentina |
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Knowledge fairs in the Caribbean: “Reducing disasters through community preparedness” |
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BiVa-PaD: An Andean Initiative to Manage Disaster Prevention and Response Information |
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Central American Probabilistic Risk Assessment (CAPRA):
Developing a Tool to Assess the Probability of Disaster Risk in Central America |
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Conference in Buenos Aires, Argentina
Municipal Integrated Risk Management for Disaster Vulnerability Reduction |
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The Paradoxes of the Pilot
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The sinkhole in San Antonio: A misunderstood early warning |
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Workshop on Disaster Risk Financing Strategies |
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Workshop: Capacity Building for Post-Disaster Recovery in Central America and the Caribbean |
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Meeting on Climate-Related Variability, Change, Risk, and Management |
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Workshop: Foundations for Strengthening the Municipal Information System for Disaster Prevention in Latin America and the Caribbean |
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Implementing a Project for Preparedness and Risk Reduction during a Volcanic Warning Phase |
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Risk Reduction in Andean Capital Cities: A horizontal regional cooperation effort |
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Ancestral Bio-Indicators in Andean Highland Regions: Disaster warning and resilience mechanisms |
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Risk Management Actions in Peru’s Educational System |
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Understanding Disasters from a Child’s Perspective Antofagasta, Chile |
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Disaster Legislation: Toward a legal framework in the Americas |
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International Training Center of the ILO
Specialization in Disaster Risk Reduction in the context of Local Sustainable Development |
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Local Development and Risk Reduction: Toward safer and more sustainable cities and societies |
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The Red Cross Movement arrived in Costa Rica in 1885 |
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The Planning and Programming Secretariat – SEGEPLAN– |
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The Center for Environmental Services in Matanzas (CSAM) |
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Specialization in Disaster Risk Reduction in the Context of Local Sustainable Development: An Innovative Experience |
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Citizen Participation and Disaster Reduction:
Communities working towards the new challenges of local development |
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Post-Disaster Recovery Processes: Gaps and Challenges |
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Training as a Strategy for Disaster Risk Reduction and as Part of Local Sustainable Development Processes |
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The Papyrus Foundation |
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The Colombian Red Cross |
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Haiti’s Civil Protection Office |
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Risk Management: A new contribution to local development in the Municipality of Torres, Venezuela |
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Colombia’s Southwest Seismological Observatory (OSSO), University of El Valle: Twenty years of research, development, and partnerships for risk reduction in Colombia 1987 – 2007 |
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Disaster Risk Reduction in Venezuela: From Vargas to a Comprehensive Risk Management Bill |
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The Nasa Community and Renewed Volcanic Activity at the Nevado del Huila Volcano, Tierradentro Páez Region, Cauca, Colombia |
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The Latest at CRID… |
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OXFAM Publications |
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Catalog of Tools for Municipal Risk Reduction Management and Emergency Preparedness in Andean Capital Cities
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Virtual Health Library for Disaster 2007 Version |
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“Strenthening of local risk and disaster management in the education sector in Central America” |
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Tools and lessons learned in Central America |
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PAHO/WHO’s New Video on Safe Hospitals |
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Transferring knowledge in the Caribbean: Systematizing experiences and good practices in disaster preparedness, local risk management and climate change adaptation |
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An upcoming risk and disaster knowledge management network titled RedDesastres
… A virtual space where you will find experiences and practices of risk and disaster reduction … |
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Compilation of health and disaster regulations and standards in Latin America |
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Information packet
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ISDR Informs
a Magazine for the Americas,
is produced by the Regional Unit for the Americas, part of the UN Inter Agency Secretariat for the
International Strategy for Disaster Reduction with headquarters in Geneva.
The information and opinions expressed in this magazine do not necessarily reflect the policies of the UN/ISDR secretariat.
Credits:
Editorial: Dave Zervaas
General Production: Margarita Villalobos
Graphic Design: Carlos Cuauhtémoc
Cover Design: Carlos Cuauhtémoc
Cover Photo: Lydia Friedmann
Photos: L. Friedmann, R. Custode,
INDECI, J. Jenkins, J.J. Trelles, IPN Stock,
Luis Vera, UNDP/BCPR, CRID, Plan International,
UN/ISDR, INGEOMINAS, UNICEF/A. Yassael,
Civil Defense Haiti, ITC/ILO, X. Guerrero,
Costa Rican Red Cross, J. Ferrando, A. Alvarez, A. Caro,
Colombian Red Cross, Asociación de Cabildos
Translation: Roberto Prado
This publication of “ISDR Informs”
was made possible thanks to the
support of the Swedish International
Development Cooperation Agency
(SIDA), as part of their contribution
to the UN/ISDR secretariat
regional work in the Americas.
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topics covered, please
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Box: 0816-02862
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