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

for Disaster Reduction

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,

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,

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

World Conference on Disaster Reduction

World Conference on Disaster Reduction

H. Women and Disaster Situations

World Conference on Disaster Reduction

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.

It sometimes happens that a drastic action designed to prevent an unacceptable disaster may make the disaster worse.

The regional meetings were attended by disaster management officials from disaster prone and responding countries in the region.

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

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

A Global Strategy for Disaster Risk

Peter Haas Haiti's disaster of engineering

The US cannot deny this disaster.

But when the great disaster cometh ,

But when the great disaster cometh ,

Space system based disaster management support.

Space system based disaster management support

C. Regional disaster response preparedness activities

Space system based disaster management support

The World Conference on Disaster Reduction,