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Data Drives Dividends
In the four years since the adoption of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction, the range of stakeholders taking part in the UN’s…
The Age of Innocence
Professor Ilan Noy holds a unique ”Chair in the Economics of Disasters” at the Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. He has proposed…
How to Maintain Awareness of Tsunami Risk
Today is World Tsunami Awareness Day — designated by the United Nations General Assembly, and according to the United Nations Office for…
How to Accelerate the Understanding of Disaster ...
RMS is delighted in playing an integral role at the United Nations’ Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction in Cancun next week. This is…
The Sendai World Conference on Disaster Risk Red...
The height reached by the tsunami from the 2011 Great East Japan earthquake is marked on the wall of the arrivals hall at Sendai airport. This…
The Journey to Sendai and Beyond
Sendai is a city of a million people 2 hours north of Tokyo on the Shinkansen bullet train. From March 14-17, 2015 it will attract seven…