The spread of disease was a major secondary disaster.

Smooth on site coordination in the event of a major disaster involving both national and international responders is a major challenge.

It is more than a tragedy it is a major disaster in every possible meaning of the word. It is a disaster unprecedented in the annals of human history.

Any country inside or outside the Union affected by a major disaster can make an appeal for assistance through the MIC.

Given the recent succession of major disasters, his country wished to share its long experience in disaster management with other countries.

The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster happened after the major earthquake and tsunami on 11 March, 2011 (see here for Global Voices coverage).

The Turkish nation, which unfortunately experienced a major earthquake in 1999, wholeheartedly sympathizes with the nations affected by the latest natural disaster.

Too often, however, societies affected by a major disaster tend to seek rapid and visible initiatives to restore normalcy, frequently at the cost of more sustainable and durable solutions that truly address the root causes of the disaster.

Thanks in part to the efforts of DPI, the World Conference on Disaster Reduction (Kobe, Japan, 18 22 January 2005), which took place only three weeks after the tsunami disaster, generated over 400 articles by major newspapers worldwide.

Of course, this is by no means a complete list, but each of those issues includes elements with the potential for causing a major disaster.

While ensuring that relief assistance is properly delivered, attention should also be given to disaster prevention and reduction, including helping the affected countries develop medium and long term plans for disaster reduction and establishing national and regional mechanisms for the monitoring, prevention and assessment of major disasters.

President Lee Myung Bak s government plans to invest 38 billion employing people to clean up four major rivers and reduce disaster risks by building embankments and water treatment facilities.

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

Disaster beckoned.

Disaster preparedness

Disaster response

Disaster recovery

Disaster Relief

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

Disaster and Development

(f) Disaster management

Blair s EU disaster

Global Disaster Recovery

Disaster risk reduction

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In the eastern Caribbean, a regional initiative the Eastern Caribbean Donor Group has been established to support the coordination of external emergency assistance in case of a major natural or technological disaster.

Recognizing also the clear relationship between development, disaster risk reduction, disaster response and disaster recovery and the need to deploy efforts in all these areas,

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.

Recognizing the clear relationship between development, disaster risk reduction, disaster response and disaster recovery and the need to continue to deploy efforts in all these areas,

Russia's first major battle of the war was a disaster in the 1914 Battle of Tannenberg, over 30,000 Russian troops were killed or wounded and 90,000 captured, while Germany suffered just 12,000 casualties.

3 Including ESCAP, ASEAN, the Asian Disaster Preparedness Center and the Asian Disaster Reduction Centre.

Bush s Second Gulf Disaster

C. Post disaster recovery

Recognizing also the clear relationship between development, disaster risk reduction, disaster response and disaster recovery and the need to continue to deploy efforts in all these areas,

Sectors International development and disaster relief are both often grouped into sectors, which correlate with the major themes of international development (and with the Millennium Development Goals which are included in the descriptions below).

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

How Effective is Disaster Relief?

When disaster strikes, we act.

Humanitarian and Disaster Relief Assistance

Disaster and development induced displacement

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H. Women and Disaster Situations

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We recognize that the international community has accumulated much experience with disaster risk reduction through the International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction and the succeeding International Strategy for Disaster Reduction.