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16 June 2011
Responding effectively to disasters
Dave reviews the UK Government plans, announced yesterday, for a refocussing of the humanitarian assistence budget, which emphasises effective disaster risk reduction and response.
9 December 2008
Saving landslide victims
In the last few days there have been two landslides that have led to searches in the hope of finding buried victims. The higher profile slide was this one that occurred in the Bukit Antarabangsa suburb of Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia) on Saturday (pictures from The Star): This landslide, which has dominated the news in Malaysia over the last few days, killed four people and injured a further 15. One person …
Dave Petley is the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Hull in the United Kingdom. His blog provides commentary and analysis of landslide events occurring worldwide, including the landslides themselves, latest research, and conferences and meetings.
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