Sentence examples for managing disaster from inspiring English sources

"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.

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.

The appeal is a test of the resilience-building approach to managing disaster, much discussed by humanitarian and development agencies but difficult to put into practice because of institutional rivalries and the problems of co-ordination.

Understanding and being able to measure vulnerability are key factors in managing disaster risk reduction.

Health sector authorities and workers are identified as contributing stakeholders to managing disaster risk and to building community resilience.

Moreover, disaster literacy exists in different degrees, which range from a basic level of awareness and communication, to managing disaster related experience, and eventually developing resilience.

This gradual increase in the number of cities participating in the MCR campaign suggests that the disaster risk reduction approach to disaster management has become increasingly accepted as the new, sustainable, and more effective way of managing disasters by those who are involved in city management.

–What role does it play in managing disasters?

More than anything this means a change in emphasis from managing disasters to managing the risks that are driving those disasters.

Mr. Brown, a Republican activist with no prior experience in managing disasters, was brought to Washington by an old friend, Joe M. Albaugh, his predecessor at FEMA.

By all accounts, it was not experience in managing disasters that brought Mr. Brown, 50, a lawyer from Oklahoma, to FEMA in 2001 as general counsel.