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Joined Project of EU and UN-ISDR for Disaster Risk Reduction

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http://www.unisdr.org/we/inform/terminology

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Joined Project of EU and UN-ISDR for Disaster Risk Reduction

This image shows an example of a cooperation between the EU and UN-ISDR to develop strategies to reduce the risk of a disaster in the European Union.

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Organizations Working to Create a Global Partnership for Development

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World Business Council for Sustainable Development, Poverty Environment Partnership

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Organizations Working to Create a Global Partnership for Development

This picture gives the reader basic information about two organizations working to bring together members of the private, public, and volunteer sectors (as well as various existing organizatons) in order to create international development strategies and to solve problems.

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Scientists' satellite images track Malaria

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Gareth van Zyl
Scientists' satellite images track Malaria
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 Super-high-resolution digital satellite photography is being used by researchers to help fight Malaria in Africa.

Mosquitoes' water habitats in Swaziland, Mozambique and SA's northern KwaZulu-Natal are being tracked by scientists, who are using imagery that has a visibility of up to five metres.

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http://www.itweb.co.za/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=52695:scientists-satellite-images-track-malaria

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NOAA: Autumn and November both warmer than average in the United States

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Billion dollar weather/climate disasters 1980 - November 2011
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U.S. sets record with a dozen billion-dollar weather disasters in one year

November and the September-November autumn season were warmer than average across the contiguous U.S., according to scientists at NOAA’s National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) in Asheville, N.C. Precipitation totals across the country were also above average during November, but near the long-term average for the autumn season.

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http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories2011/20111207_novusstats.html

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The charitable face of data use

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Tanzeel Akhtar
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A new group of innovative non-governmental organisations are springing up in the wake of disasters around the world, driven by complex data analysis and backed by telecom brands

Signing up refugees via mobile phone, Kakuma refugee camp, Kenya

When a massive earthquake hit Haiti in January 2010, the United Nations found that data collected through mobile telephones was crucial to delivering its relief programmes in the region.

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http://www.marketingweek.co.uk/disciplines/data-strategy/the-charitable-face-of-data-use/3032554.article

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Russian Land Use - Forests

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Russia’s Report on the Montreal Process Criteria and Indicators for the Conservation and Sustainable Management of Temperate and Boreal Forests.

Russia’s Report
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Montreal Process
Criteria and Indicators
for the
Conservation and Sustainable Management
of Temperate and Boreal Forests