Cuba is internationally applauded for exceptional disaster management, according to a news release from Nagin's office.
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The launching ceremony was followed by a panel discussion on cultural heritage and disaster management.
But disaster management officials have told the BBC they are cautiously optimistic that the Danube can be saved.
His approach represents an important shift in thinking about disaster management, and results in effective strategies for local governance and planning.
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In nearby Pakistan, however, a spokesman for the National Disaster Management Authority, which coordinates emergency relief, said the death toll was 39 so far.
Rescue workers are trying to get aid to affected victims of the storm, said Abel Nazaire, the assistant coordinator of Risk and Disaster Management.
Samoa's Disaster Management Office said power was off throughout the country.
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"There is an urgent need across the board for governments to invest in pre-disaster management, including investment in local capacity such as public education, " he says.
The government has trained nearly 50, 000 community volunteers in disaster management, and the country has more than 3, 000 cyclone shelters, many of which double as schools.
We highlighted consistent ASEAN-US cooperation on disaster management and response in support of the ASEAN Agreement on Disaster Management and Emergency Response (AADMER) and its mechanism.
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And I'm proud that my FEMA Director, Craig Fugate, has 25 years of experience in disaster management in Florida, a state that's known its share of hurricanes.
First established in 1997 in Nagoya, Japan, RoboCup pits robots from around the world in contests of skill including their capacity to provide disaster management and assisted living services.
"It's not often that a country can be hit by four tropical storms successively, " says Abel Nazier, the deputy coordinator for Recent Disaster Management at the Haitian Interior Ministry.
Dilip sees that this shift from reactionary disaster management, which is often wasteful and inefficient, to proactive organizing will enable communities to respond to future disasters quickly and efficiently.
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In nearby Pakistan, however, a spokesman for the National Disaster Management Authority, which is tasked with coordinating emergency relief, said the death toll was much higher, at 39 so far.
Saeed Aleem, chairman of Pakistan's National Disaster Management Authority, earlier told CNN there was no report of any casualties or damage to buildings in Pakistan, but information was still coming in.
"The Marcal river is dead, " said Tibor Dobson, spokesman of the Hungarian Disaster Management Agency - a reference to a smaller river which flows north from the disaster area towards the Danube.
About 1, 500 people from different government agencies as well as the police department were involved in the rescue work which lasted for 43 hours, said Mr. Kadam, the local disaster management officer.
About 1, 500 people from different government agencies as well as the police department were involved in the rescue work which lasted for 43 hours, Mr. Kadam, the local disaster management officer, said Saturday.
How can you begin to articulate sensitively the key points about disaster management succinctly in just a few minutes when you are sandwiched tightly between job losses at a Swiss bank and management changes at Apple?
To further coordinate U.S. relief efforts and to assist in the assessment of the immediate response and longer term recovery needs, we have deployed additional U.S. personnel to work alongside Pakistani national and provincial disaster management officials.
The National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) on Friday said that most of those hit by the latest floods flooding are in Sindh province - in the southern part of the country - where 2.8 million have been affected.
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Those should be made available to all the provinces and districts for active response as well as to National Disaster Management Authority for policy formulation and strategic guidance and to Federal Flood Commission for monitoring of flood infrastructure.
And whether it is in civil nuclear cooperation, whether it is in humanitarian relief and disaster management, maritime security -- all these are issues which unite us in our quest for a world free from the threat of war, want and exploitation.
Loti Yates, director of the national disaster management office in the Solomon capital Honiara, that the airport in Lata had been damaged by the tsunami and that logs and debris which had washed into the area by the wave were blocking the runway.
Its overall objective is to provide actors responsible for disaster management, risk prevention, civil protection and also spatial planning with EO-based solutions contributing particularly to an improved preparedness and mitigation planning for areas highly vulnerable to natural disasters and already noticeable climate change trends.
Starting in the cyclone-prone region of the Sunderbans in West Bengal, Dilip is enabling communities to use disaster management as a starting point from which to launch efforts to prioritize real needs and design programs that both strengthen communities for the long-term and further the aims of sustainable development.
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As a key component of the UNESCO s Project "Strategic Strengthening of Flood Warning and Management Capacity of Pakistan", the workshop was organized at NUST Institute of Civil Engineering from 20-23 Dec, 2011 in cooperation with National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA), Pakistan Metrological Department (PMD), SUPARCO and other partner organizations.
We recalled the 2005 Kuala Lumpur Declaration, the 2010 Ha Noi Declaration, and 2011 Declaration of the East Asia Summit on the Principles for Mutually Beneficial Relations, which reaffirms and elaborates the broad vision, principles, objectives and modalities of the EAS. We welcomed continued efforts in the six priority areas of cooperation under the EAS framework and recognized high-level U.S. engagement in those areas including energy, education, environment and disaster management and response.
WHITEHOUSE: Joint Statement of the 4th ASEAN-U.S. Leaders' Meeting
The latter point has galvanized especially intense interest for purposes of emergency services and disaster-management planning.
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