Sentence examples for managed disaster from inspiring English sources

Prior to joining GFDRR, Francis managed disaster risk management programs in the South Asia and Latin America and the Caribbean regions at the World Bank.

I have managed disaster responses since 2001, but this has been particularly difficult because the Nepalese authorities are overwhelmed by the sheer scale of the disaster.

This limit, which was set after the Exxon Valdez spill, now stands at $75m; damages above that figure are meant to be met by a federally managed disaster fund which gets its money from a small tax on oil production and imports.

Charles R. Blaich, a retired deputy chief who was in charge of safety for the Fire Department at the ground zero site, said the McKinsey report changed how the department managed disasters.

"Managing disaster risk is not the same as disaster management," Prashant, a disaster reduction and recovery expert at the World Bank's Global Facility who uses one name, said at a preconference briefing last week.

These migrants send back remittances that help families manage disaster and other risks.

An essential part of this is improving how we manage disaster risk.

It also said households and businesses should be relied on to manage disaster risks to their assets with insurance.

Including funds for managing disaster loans, the administration seeks $1.1 billion in 2013 (pdf, with much greater detail here), nearly $200 million more than what Congress passed for 2012.

It is concluded that the ethical framework within which politics are conducted has a strong bearing on the ability to manage disaster risk.

"We had set up our command post there because we needed to evacuate 150 patients," Darrel Whitfield, who manages disaster services for the City of Arlington, said in a telephone interview.