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Common Misconceptions about Disaster

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Reality: Emergency response should have made a transition from a military activity to a fully civilian one. Reality: There are so many potential pathogens, agents and isotopes that high-level laboratory analysis way be needed, which would cause problems of transportation of samples and rapidity of analyses.

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Unlocking Climate Change Resilience Through Critical Event Management and Public Warning

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trillion in global economic losses,” according to a report conducted by the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR). Disaster risk is becoming systemic with one event overlapping and influencing another in ways that are testing our resilience to the limit,” Mizutori said. million lives, affecting 4.2