As a result, the likelihood of another disaster on the scale of Fukushima has been reduced.

But the scale of the disaster facing Japan is so monumental that it demands our help.

The overall assessment was that the country had fortunately been spared a large scale disaster.

The disaster, unprecedented in its nature and scale, was matched by unprecedented worldwide solidarity with the affected populations.

It was America s misfortune to undergo one disaster of the Great Depression s scale to undergo two does indeed look like carelessness.

We know of no country or region that has successfully attained full recovery from a disaster of this scale in three years.

IFRC contributed to the International Strategy for Disaster Reduction through increased preparedness, response activities, small scale mitigation, education, advocacy and partnerships.

However, in neighboring Haiti, where the epicenter was located, the situation was total disaster as the earthquake measuring 7.0 on the Richter scale struck.

Let us remember, however, that much remains to be done in terms of natural disaster prevention, in particular through the creation of effective warning systems and that we should establish a body for designing the response to a disaster of such an unforeseen nature and scale.

I was horrified when I received the tragic news of the overwhelming disaster, and I am extremely shocked by the scale of casualties, particularly the tremendous loss of life in Pakistan.

In recent years, a disproportionate share of UNOPS revenues has come from a few large scale, complex operations, managed in specific environments post conflict transition and post natural disaster recovery.

Given the nature and scale of the disaster, solidarity on the part of the international community is an absolute necessity if those countries that have been affected are to overcome the consequences of the catastrophe.

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

The scale and the impact of that devastating disaster clearly demonstrated the vulnerability of the countries of the Indian Ocean region and their limited capacity to respond effectively and in a timely fashion to unforeseen natural disasters.

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

Philanthropies of Scale

17. Encourages Member States and relevant regional and international organizations to identify and improve the dissemination of best practices for improving disaster preparedness, response and early recovery and to scale up successful local initiatives, as appropriate

The Government and, indeed, the people of my country were profoundly touched by the unprecedented scale of the disaster the catastrophic loss of human life, amounting to over 170,000 persons to date, and the magnitude of displacement, devastation and dislocation.

And the problem with it is, I think we are setting ourselves up for a kind of disaster like the disaster we had in the financial system, where we take a system that's basically built on trust, was basically built for a smaller scale system, and we've kind of expanded it way beyond the limits of how it was meant to operate.

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.

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Scale

Disaster beckoned.

Disaster preparedness

Disaster response

Disaster recovery

Disaster Relief

There's no matter of scale. It's not a question of scale, it's not a question of financial resources.

It is entirely appropriate that the General Assembly should devote specific attention to the recent earthquake and tsunami disaster, which has brought devastation on an unprecedented scale to island and coastal States in the Indian Ocean.

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

Peter Haas Haiti's disaster of engineering

Conscious of the number and scale of natural disasters and their increasing impact, including the tsunami disaster that struck the Indian Ocean and Southeast Asian regions on 26 December 2004, resulting in hundreds of thousands of deaths and millions of displaced and homeless persons,

The former deals with the behaviour of soil from a small scale to a landslide scale.

Emphasizing also the importance of integrating risk reduction into all phases of disaster management, development planning and post disaster recovery,

In support of this, UNDP will deploy national disaster risk reduction advisers to assist national efforts in capacity building for disaster risk reduction in 20 of the most disaster prone countries of the world.

Disaster and Development

(f) Disaster management

Blair s EU disaster

Global Disaster Recovery

Disaster risk reduction

for Disaster Reduction

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

Disaster relief requires timely and updated geo social databases and situational analysis for the various phases of the disaster

Economies of scale tend to favour uniform approaches in large scale centralised schemes for the restoration of degraded lands.

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,