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Kansas schools need more funds to be prepared for disasters
2013-11-08 20:23:00| American School & University
Shrinking resources prevent state from providing sufficient funds for preparedness. Schoolhouse Beat read more
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Obama signs order on response to weather disasters & climate change
2013-11-04 10:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: A year after Hurricane Sandy devastated the East Coast, President Obama signed an executive order Friday to make it easier for states and local governments to respond to weather disasters. The executive order establishes a task force of state and local officials to advise the administration on how to respond to severe storms, wildfires, droughts and other possible effects of climate change. The task force includes governors of seven states -- all Democrats -- and the Republican governor of Guam,...
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Preparing for inevitable: What we still dont understand about natural disasters
2013-10-27 10:07:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Salon: Some natural disasters -- the earth-shattering, world-ending kind -- we can`t prepare for. But smaller disasters, cataclysmic on a local scale, strike all the time. And yet each time they do, they never fail to take us by surprise. The problem isn`t so much that we can`t anticipate disasters, says geologist Susan W. Kieffer, but that the public, and policy makers, don`t understand the way they work as well as they should. In "The Dynamics of Disaster," Kieffer, a professor emerita of geology at...
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'Learned helplessness' leaves Australians in major cities unprepared to cope in natural disasters
2013-10-23 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Australian Broadcasting Corporation: Emergency experts say a learned helplessness has left Australians in major cities unprepared to cope in natural disasters. With the increasing impact of extreme heatwaves, storms, fires and floods, experts say traditional reliance on emergency services and recovery support such as cash handouts needs to be urgently reviewed if Australia is to better survive both the effects and escalating costs of such disasters. Emergency expert Lewis Winter from Charles Sturt University says Australians need...
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Q&A: Could natural disasters and climate change keep people poor?
2013-10-21 04:36:23| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Wall Street Journal: Natural disasters that have smacked Southeast Asia recently have killed scores of people and left severe damage in their wake. Recovery has begun, but the dent these events leave on the regions economies could derail international efforts to eradicate poverty, according to a recent report that looks at how climate change and exposure to severe weather impact different countries. As temperatures warm, many of the worlds poorest and most vulnerable citizens will face increased risks associated...
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