So while praising the "huge local effort", and thanking the authorities and the US experts, the British biologist is sure that if the Galapagos is in fact safe from disaster it will be because "the major part of what we had was luck".
Integrate DRR planning into the health sector; promote the goal of "hospitals safe from disaster" by ensuring that all new hospitals are built with a level of resilience that strengthens their capacity to remain functional in disaster situations and implement mitigation measures to reinforce existing health facilities, particularly those providing primary health care.
The current and previous biennial World Disaster Reduction campaigns organized by UNISDR have been devoted to "Disaster risk reduction begins at schools" (2006-2007) and "Hospitals Safe from Disasters" (2008-2009).
A High Level Panel on Safe Schools and Hospitals, jointly organized by UNISDR, UNICEF, UNESCO, WHO and World Bank during the Global Platform consultation, covered the experience of France, Mexico, Philippines and Tajikistan in making hospitals and schools safer from disasters and emphasized the vital role that scientific evidence plays.
Ecology and the economy are both rooted in the Greek word for 'home' and the less we do now to tame climate change, the more it will cost us later to keep our homes safe from global disaster.
When the smoke cleared, 94 people were dead, scores more were injured and a nation was left asking: Is nowhere, even an expensive, privately run hospital designed for the country's upwardly mobile classes, safe from the disaster that seems to lurk on every railway line, highway on-ramp and festival ground?
As most Internet experts realize, the Internet is pretty safe from natural disasters because of its redundant infrastructure (meaning that there are many pathways by which any given packet of data can reach its destination) but deeply vulnerable to a wide range of deliberate attacks, either by censoring governments or by rogue hackers.
As we make that decision, people who think their homes are safe from natural disasters should think again.
But some of the president's grades are obvious, especially for those who care about keeping the environment and our children healthy, keeping our people safe from weather disasters, living in a time when the nation is at peace, and salvaging America's reputation overseas.
"Let us all make our commitment to ensure that in a very near future, there will be no child and family across the country unprepared to shelter safe from natural disasters and children all over the country are part of our preparedness and response plans," says Sylwander.
Many assumed that as long as their data systems were backed up at another location, their business was safe from an unforeseen disaster.
