This issue includes:

ISDR Global News
- New UN/ISDR Outreach Office in Central Asia
- New ISDR focal point in Kobe, Japan
- Learning to live with risk
- Media contributions to disaster reduction recognized
- ISDR Platform for the Promotion of Early

Royal Society Discussion Meeting on Extreme Natural Hazards, London, 26-27 October 2005 - Published in Royal Society of London Transactions Series A, vol. 364, Issue 1845, pp.2167-2182

This paper gives an international perspective, focusing on the ISDR's

The conclusions of the Second International Conference on Early Warning (EWC II), 16-18 October 2003, Bonn, Germany

This documentation collection promotes early warning systems to policymakers and decision makers. It includes selected papers produced for

@local.glob, issue no. 3 – year 2006:

The document assists in facilitating and supporting efforts by governments, local authorities, international organizations, and multilateral financial and trade institutions to invest in reducing disaster risk and to

Invited paper for United Nations Expert Group Meeting: "Environmental management and the mitigation of natural disasters: a gender perspective" Ankara, Turkey, 6-9 November 2001

This paper refers to examples from developed and developing areas to address

This booklet was elaborated as "questions & answers" between a volcanologist and a volcano. It teaches children what a volcano is, the different types of volcanoes, and their level of risk.

European countries will meet in Moldova to discuss ways to reduce the impacts of natural hazards through strengthened collaboration among National Meteorological and Hydrological Services and disaster risk management institutions....

This publication brings together all the relevant official documents related to ISDR and related subjects, including UN General Assembly resolutions and reports of the UN Secretary-General of the period 2000-2002. It is designed to complement other