A year on from Sendai, collaboration remains central to building disaster resilience

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A central tenet of the Sendai Framework is engaging the private sector in Disaster Risk Reduction, explains Will Nichols, companies heeding this call will reap the benefits of improved resilience

Although widely acknowledged as the hottest year on record, boasting a 'mega' El Nino, and punctuated by the Nepal earthquake, 2015 was a remarkably benign year for natural disasters. Fewer than 23,000...

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