Les Aspects Internationaux Des Catastrophes Naturelles Et Industrielles/Theinternational Aspects of Natural and Industrial Catastrophes (Inglese)

The Academy Curatorium’s choice to focus the 1995 Research Centre on catastrophes was without doubt prompted by the United Nations General Assembly’s unwittingly apposite designation of the 1990s as ‘the International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction’. The depth and persistence of the suffering and waste surrounding disasters is evident in the very slow progress made over the past decade. But to say it is slow is not to say there is none. Rather, it is to say that, as with many things important, the task of confronting the challenges posed by natural and man-made catastrophes will be a continuous one in which progress is measured in the individuals saved, the biodiversity protected, and the economic waste prevented.

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