These can be displayed as maps, graphs or raw values and the data downloaded in different formats.

Earthquakes, floods, tornadoes, tsunamis and other natural disasters are beyond the capacity of any State to prevent.

The Risk and Disaster Management Programme provides local government, communities and business organizations with practical strategies for mitigating and recovering from conflicts and natural disasters.

Complex emergencies and natural disasters continued to attract the support of donors.

Mediterranean Council for Burns and Fire Disaster Ms. Gilda Glasnovich

The global financial crisis, wars and natural disasters have inspired a new wave of immigration to Brazil.

Humanitarian coordination and disaster mapping for the World Food Programme (WFP) (the Sudan and China, 2005).

To intensify cooperation to reduce the number and effects of natural and man made disasters.

That help is needed, because Ethiopians are prone to malnutrition, disease, and natural calamity.

Natural disasters strike with greater fury, and in greater numbers, than ever before.

Farther afield, we have also assisted the responses to protracted crises in Africa, including in the Sudan, the Niger, Malawi and in southern Africa more broadly.

The absence of such knowledge invites trouble, often disaster.

The declaration of Athens (June 2001) on Mental Health and anthropogenic disasters, Stigmatization, and Community Psychiatric Care. This declaration was signed during the first Session of W.H.O.

Growing populations, climactic change and natural disasters had profoundly affected agricultural productivity.

Throughout the world, war, poverty, natural disasters and economic crises are tearing families apart.

Aware that the geographical features and location of the Philippines make it prone to natural and man made disasters,

Expressing its deep concern at the frequency and intensity of extreme weather events and associated natural disasters,

It is not necessary for us to wait for great catastrophes to occur if we can see them coming.

That world has been replaced by a multilateral world, which includes AIDS, unemployment, energy and climate crises, and so on.

Ultimately, even Hurricane Katrina and other disasters of similar magnitude are small by world standards.

Poverty, hunger, preventable and curable diseases, illiteracy, drugs and natural disasters are other threats and challenges facing today's world.

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

Edward Gibbon once described history as being little better than a record of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.

These measures cost more money, but they afford much greater protection against accidents, disasters, and terrorist attacks.

Instead of being an asset, oil has become a liability that generates poverty, corruption, ethnic conflict, and ecological disaster.

Key result area 3 centres on improving mechanisms to protect children from the impact of armed conflict and natural disasters.

The International Charter Space and Major Disasters sought to provide a unified system of space data acquisition and delivery.

We continue to be haunted by shocking human suffering from hunger, poverty and disease and extraordinary natural disasters.

These include conflict prevention and resolution, terrorism, natural disasters, disease control, disarmament and arms control, poverty and sustainable development.

The consolidated appeals process continued to be an important tool for coordination and strategic planning in complex emergencies and natural disasters in Africa.

Natural disasters also affected children, as witnessed by the tsunami disaster and the Bam earthquake, which had struck one year ago.

CAMBRIDGE In principle, holding gold is a form of insurance against war, financial Armageddon, and wholesale currency debasement.

Environmental and health threats, terrorism, natural disasters and humanitarian crises are but a few examples that amply illustrate this fact.

Many countries were currently in a very vulnerable position as a result of climate change and natural disasters.

The majority of these revenues, however, will derive from portfolios from post conflict post natural disaster countries.

Mr. Gallardo (Peru) welcomed the new emphasis on using space technologies to address such problems as climate change and natural disasters.

The Foundation's Director, Jean Marie Fonrouge, was an anaesthetist, a specialist in emergency and disaster medicine and a doctor in public international law.

Vulnerability to the effects of climate change and natural disasters must be addressed by the international community as a whole, if only because of their high social and economic costs.

The scale of some of these man made problems and natural disasters such as terrorism, war, the tsunami and Hurricane Katrina was unprecedented.

The question was also raised regarding the rationale for excluding natural disasters but not other kinds of disasters, such as epidemics or man made disasters.

However, the achievements have been blunted by the food shortage crisis and natural disasters in the mid 1990s, whose consequences continue to be felt.

They were also identified in the light of current global concerns for security from crime, terrorism and natural disasters, which have shaped the political agenda of many countries.

Noting with concern also the devastating effects of difficult social and economic conditions, armed conflicts and natural disasters on family life,

Underlining the importance of the ongoing work of the working group on climate change and natural disasters established by the Inter Agency Task Force for Disaster Reduction,

This combination of insecurity and natural disasters has displaced huge numbers of people and caused suffering on a scale painful to behold.