Disaster Report

Type: Product

Name: Disaster Report

First reported Jun 08 2013 - Updated Jun 08 2013 - 1 reports

Be prepared

Every year, life in the Philippines gets more dangerous with the arrival of the rainy season. It is thus quite appropriate that the seven days starting tomorrow, June 10-16, have been declared Disaster Preparedness Week by the Department of Interior and ... [Published Philippine Daily Inquirer - Jun 08 2013]

Entities: Philippines, Disaster, Manila

First reported May 22 2013 - Updated May 22 2013 - 1 reports

United Nations

Push for inclusion of resilience to disaster risk in post 2015 development agenda

There is a growing push to include resilience to disaster risk in the post 2015 development agenda discussion.The most frequently used reasons used at the UN Global Platform meeting underway in Geneva are huge costs to infrastructure and government and ... [Published Pacific Islands News Association - May 22 2013]

Entities: Disaster, United Nations, Disaster Risk Reduction, Resilience, Sendai (Miyagi, Japan)

First reported Apr 17 2013 - Updated Apr 17 2013 - 1 reports

Indonesia: Indonesia's natural disaster risks, costs rise

Source: IRINCountry: Indonesia JAKARTA, 17 April 2013 (IRIN) - When the Ciliwung River breached its banks in Indonesia's capital, Jakarta, in January, Abdul Majid rushed to move his family and belongings upstairs. "When I knew the flood was going to ... [Published ReliefWeb - Latest Updates - Apr 17 2013]

Entities: Disaster, Indonesia, Jakarta

First reported Jan 30 2013 - Updated Jan 30 2013 - 1 reports

Kevin Price

Nearly Half Of American Households Are 1 Emergency Away From Financial Disaster, Report Finds

Kevin Price is one emergency away from not being able to cover his basic needs, but he doesn’t fit the stereotype of someone living on the financial edge. Price lives in a three-bedroom house with his wife and two children in a suburb of Wilmington, ... [Published The Huffington Post | Full News Feed - Jan 30 2013]

Entities: Kevin Price, Disaster Report, emergency, Muzak Holdings

First reported Dec 29 2012 - Updated Dec 29 2012 - 1 reports

PH among Asia Pacific countries with land use plans aimed at curbing disasters

In their joint, 134-page Asia-Pacific Disaster Report 2012, the UNISDR and the ESCAP said these countries? land use plans ?provide overall geographic frameworks and locational policy directions to guide countries? national development strategies.? Aside ... [Published Philippine Daily Inquirer - Dec 29 2012]

Entities: Land Use, Philippines, Disaster

First reported Dec 26 2012 - Updated Dec 26 2012 - 1 reports

International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies

World: Humanitarian Research Digest (November 2012)

Source: UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian AffairsCountry: World CONTENTS The State of the Humanitarian System – 2012 Edition, ALNAP Tools for the job: Supporting principled humanitarian action, Norwegian Refugee Council & ODI Global Humanitarian ... [Published ReliefWeb - Latest Updates - Dec 26 2012]

Entities: International Federation of Red Cross and Red C..., Resilience, Save the Children, Technical Communities Inc

Quotes

In 2007, the last time the capital of some 10 million residents experienced massive flooding, he lost all his merchandise. "I had to use all of my savings and borrow money to buy new goods" he said

Indonesia: Indonesia's natural disaster risks, costs rise [Published ReliefWeb - Latest Updates - Apr 17 2013]