California has been among the leaders in prevention and preparation, requiring every school to file a written emergency plan since 1997.
Like me, many would argue that conflict prevention, or preparation for war, has made the government take a narrow view of development and prevented it from realising its potential in terms of industrialisation and social development.
We have lost our chance for complete prevention; and preparation alone, without slowing emissions, would — sooner or later — turn our coastal cities into so many Atlantises.
It's all about prevention and preparation.
From the viewpoint of seismic hazard prevention and preparation, future earthquake scenarios that include high stress drop should be applied to more analyses, especially the moderate-to-large events originating from the immature blind faulting.
At the prevention and preparation level ("resiliency"), we're finding architects can play a leading role engaging organizations and policymakers to coordinate resources and establish plans for communities or cities.
Building a network of collective wisdom and shared prevention and preparation resources asks us to leverage a disaster to reframe the question "What do I do?" as "What are we going to do?" How do we engage the entire recovery cycle and who should be doing it?
By mid-2007, the RVF Working Group will produce a draft white paper detailing RVF background, research needs, action contributions from member agencies and universities, surveillance and control needs, and RVF prevention and preparation outlines for the United States.
To date, we have not seen elected officials who have met their obligation to protect and serve with regard to the preparation, prevention, and rescue and recovery efforts in the Gulf Coast states.
The environmental health community thus has an opportunity to play a key role in advocating for and supporting improvements in prevention of and preparation for terrorist attacks.
This underscores the importance of taking a proactive approach in strengthening SRH services in prevention of and preparation for humanitarian emergencies while supporting national and local authorities as well as communities.
