International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (ISDR)

Content

Editorial
	Living with Risk in a Changing Climate

Global ISDR
	Launching of the «Living with risk» A global review of disaster reduction initiatives
	Celebration of the World Disaster Reduction Day
	World Summit on Sustainable Development Outcome of WSSD
	News from the ISDR Secretariat
	Donor’s Meeting: Strengthening Regional and National Capacities for Natural Disaster Reduction
	The UN Sasakawa Award for Disaster Reduction

Desasters in the Region
	Ecuador’s Forgotten Volcano The Eruption of Reventador
	Cuba: Beyond a Simple Response to Hurricanes

Contributions
	A structural vulnerability assessment of seismic hazard in a sector of Guatemala City
	The Role of Community Disaster Preparedness in National Development
	Guatemala: A Country of Mountains

Partners in Action
	Epidemiological control measures in communities affected by floods
	Radio Drama Series “Times of Hurricanes”
	Antofagasta, Chile, and the threat of tsunamis Confronting Natural Hazards in the New Century
	The Andean Committee for Disaster Prevention and Assistance (CAPRADE)
	Guatemala: First National Meeting on Risk Management
	Flood Vulnerability Reduction and Early Warning Systems Project for Small River Basins in Central America now has its own subregional platform
	ECLAC organizes disaster impact assessment workshop in El Salvador
	Regional Workshop: Risk Reduction in Human Settlements in Central America and the Caribbean
	Regional Consultation: “Local Management and Risk Reduction within Human Settlements located in the Caribbean Basin”
	A Seismic Warning System for the State of Oaxaca, Mexico: A Technological Tool for Reducing Vulnerability
	Seismic Risk and Social Behavior
	Education

Kids and Youth
	Lightning

Multimedia
	AN UPDATE ON PROJECT PROGRESS Improving Access to Health and Disaster Information in Honduras, Nicaragua and El Salvador
	Living with Risk: Global Review of Disaster Reduction Initiatives
	A New CD on El Niño Phenomenon
	Latest PAHO Publications
	Regional Disaster Information Center
	Series: Local Risk Management... A Way towards Municipal Development
	Announcement 6th International Conference on Risk Management
	Caribbean Risk Management Network

ISDR Informs – a Magazine for Latin America and the Caribbean,
is produced by the Regional Unit for Latin America and the Caribbean, part of the UN Inter Agency Secretariat for the International Strategy for Disaster Reduction in Geneva.

The information and opinions expressed in this magazine do not necessarily reflect the policies of the ISDR Secretariat.

Credits:
Editor: Elina Palm
General Production: Margarita Villalobos Mora
Graphic Design: Mario Barrantes
Cover Design: Mario Barrantes
Photo Cover: Tony Bagalue, Trinidad y Tobago
Photographs:R. Pérez, J. Valdés, E. Palm, CIDCURN- Hunduras, L. Herrera, J. Jenkins, R. Zapata, EIRD.
Translation: Hermann Steffen, Roberto Prado
Printed by MasterLitho

The publication of “ISDR Informs” was made possible thanks to the support of the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA ), as part of the Swedish contribution to the ISDR Secretariat regional work in Latin America and the Caribbean.

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ISDR Secretariat, United Nations
Palais des Nations CH 1211 Geneva 10, Switzerland
Tel: (4122) 9172762
Fax: (4122) 9170563
isdr@un.org

Regional Unit for Latin America and the Caribbean
P.O. Box 3745-1000
San José, Costa Rica
Fax (506) 257-2139,
Tel (506) 257-2141/255-1962
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