But the calamities of terrorism, if allowed, will be as devastating as natural disasters.

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Preventing catastrophic terrorism

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Disaster recovery

Nine of every ten recorded disasters are now climate related.

Unsustainable development patterns can generate new disaster risks.

This issue was illustrated by the example of Maldives, which recently faced the consequences of a tsunami disaster.

We must act to ensure that catastrophic terrorism never becomes a reality.

Instead of having Vaclav Smil's massively fatal discontinuity of life, we can ensure the continuity of life.

It is easy to imagine disasters so severe that drastic action to prevent them would be reasonable, and advocates of drastic action can easily scare the public with imagined disasters.

The Syrian Arab Republic proposes the addition of the words and major natural disasters after conflict .

We recognize the challenging role of the United Nations in responding to complex emergency situations.

Some have been the direct victims of acts of savagery and terrorism others of catastrophic natural disasters.

A detection and monitoring system for tsunamis is necessary but not sufficient to reduce a tsunami disaster.

The whole state has been declared disaster zone, and it will take more than three months to clear the water from the area.

The majority of the world's displaced persons were refugees who had fled from natural disasters rather than conflicts.

These are magnified in a globalized, liberalized and competitive international economic environment and with the increasing incidence of more devastating natural disasters.

Israel has lost its few capable leaders Sharon alongside Begin and Rabin to assorted calamities.

Meanwhile, Goya was working on drawings that would form the basis for The Disasters of War .

There is a humanitarian situation which, owing to a natural disaster and man made causes, is extremely serious and getting worse.

A few years ago, Professor Vaclav Smil tried to calculate the probability of sudden disasters large enough to change history.

Catastrophic disasters associated with climate change are easy to invent, but the effects of remedial actions may be difficult to predict.

(b) Tsunami disasters along the Andaman Sea, Thailand using geo informatics technology , by Somkiat Ariyapruchya and Supapis Pol Ngam (Thailand).

Yet, the international community allows poverty to destroy lives on a scale before which the impact of all of the world's natural disasters pales into insignificance.

The Chairman made a statement in expression of condolence to the Governments and peoples of Pakistan, India, Guatemala and El Salvador, with regard to the natural disasters that had occurred in those countries.

As a mountain country, Kyrgyzstan regularly faces serious and frequent natural disasters, such as earthquakes, landslides, avalanches, and the flooding of cities and settlements.

The experience of the tsunami, and the occurrence of other recent disasters, had made Sri Lanka even more concerned about the need to develop effective disaster management.

Involvement of United Nations entities in the Charter on Cooperation to Achieve the Coordinated Use of Space Facilities in the Event of Natural or Technological Disasters.

He called these, massively fatal discontinuities, meaning that they could kill up to 100 million people in the next 50 years.

Taking into account that extreme weather events and associated natural disasters and their reduction must be dealt with in a coherent and effective manner,

In order to advance social justice, democracy, and human rights, especially those of women, and to end the scourge of war, committed energetic leadership is required.

Thus, the global commitment to eradicating poverty should be on a sustained basis and not just in response to financial emergencies or national calamities.

Many of the disaster prone areas of such States are not able to obtain appropriate insurance due to the heavy costs incurred in previous disasters.

C. Involvement of United Nations entities in the Charter on Cooperation to Achieve the Coordinated Use of Space Facilities in the Event of Natural or Technological Disasters

The Situation in Regions of the Islamic World Affected by Environmental Disasters, in particular in the Basin of the Aral Sea and the Region of Semipalatinsk.

And, as I suggested above, all schemes aimed at easing the burden of work and increasing the amount of leisure risk falling victim to our genius for conjuring up new disasters.

While we can, in time, rebuild what we have lost, we should take the appropriate steps to prevent a similar disaster from happening again.

The plight of migrants is particularly tragic when its source is violent conflict, like in Syria and Libya, or natural or manmade disasters.

Economists have proposed three explanations for why macroeconomic catastrophes have not caused more human suffering and deranged long run economic growth over the past generation.

While horror film music plays and clips of history s disasters are shown on the screen, a voice intones, Eighty years ago, George Soros was born.

Several devastating natural disasters have also occurred in the past year, including hurricanes in the Caribbean, locusts in the Sahel and the tsunami in the Indian Ocean.

Sri Lanka is pleased that a recommendation made by the Secretary General in his report under the heading Preventing catastrophic terrorism is already on the way towards adoption by the United Nations.

We need to raise awareness and work together to put an end to terrorism and to alleviate its destructive impact.

While certain horrific crises are often highlighted by the main global media, others seem, unfortunately, to be almost ignored.