While the SFDRR excludes conflict in its conceptualization of disasters, it is incumbent upon African countries, through the Constitutive Act of the African Union, to decisively include conflict in its DRR strategic framework.
We model a hurricane event because, in addition to its similarity to other disasters, it provides enough warning for substantive preparation activities.
On the ground the government is responding to the latest crisis, but, as with past disasters, it has been slow to admit its severity.
Typically used in the event of hurricanes or other natural disasters, it allows the operator a way out of its contract when a major, unexpected event occurs.
You begin to wonder if the Bush White House, in its urgent need to find scapegoats for the myriad disasters it has inflicted, is preparing to repeat a dismal and dismaying episode of the Nixon years.
So along with all the other disasters, it was a bad day for Baal.
It reaches out to the poorest — the women — and has demonstrated that despite disasters it can work.
As with modelling natural disasters, it is easier to assess severity than frequency.Many reinsurers are sceptical about modelling terrorist risk.
In 2009, 17 million people were displaced by such disasters, it said, and in 2008, 36 million.
Although it is currently irradiated and plagued with natural disasters, it may be a prospect for future colonization.
The death toll from the accident, Mrs. Song heard, was in the hundreds, although, as with most North Korean disasters, it was not reported.
