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While natural hazards cannot be prevented, they only become disasters because affected communities are vulnerable and unprepared. Early warning systems have been proved beyond doubt to save lives and reduce economic losses at all levels, as this report explains, but they are still not an integral part of disaster management and risk reduction globally. Nor is early action – the culture of prevention as the Hyogo Framework for Action called it – an effective and timely response to early warning, across different timescales.
This report argues that early warning without early action is not enough; early action can do more to reduce loss of life and protect livelihoods than can be achieved through emergency response alone. National governments, donors and all stakeholders must take up this challenge.
The World Disasters Report 2009 features:
- An introduction to early warning systems for different hazards and early action.
- People-centered early warning and early action
- Early action and bridging timescales
- Climate change – the early warning
- Food insecurity: what actions should follow early warning?
- Plus: photos, tables, graphics and index
Published annually since 1993, the World Disasters Report brings together the latest trends, facts and analysis of contemporary crises – whether 'natural' or man-made, quick-onset or chronic.
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