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Healthy people in a healthy environment
Good health and well-being require a clean and harmonious environment where physical, psycho - logical, social and aesthetic factors are all given their due importance. These factors are affected by actions and choices which can secure considerable health benefits. The environment is thus not only important for its own sake, but as a resource for better living conditions and well-being.- What we’ve agreed: the Convention on the Rights of the Child and the Millennium Development Goals
- Green savings
- What young people want
- Water – the key to life
- The air we breathe
- Safer, quieter towns and cities of the future – reclaiming the streets
- Active, healthy lifestyles
- Making energy sustainable
- On the safe side
- Listen to our voices – the Bandung Declaration
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Natural Hazards and Disasters Archive
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Natural hazards
Posted on August 6, 2010 | No CommentsPlates, quakes and volcanoes Wherever the Earth’s tectonic plates – sections of the Earth’s crust drifting on the hotter layer below – come together or pull apart, energy bursts out...
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Editorial Natural Hazards and Disasters
Posted on August 5, 2010 | No CommentsTwo of this year’s disasters have underlined how dependent even the richest economies are on nature and the environment. The eruption of Iceland’s Eyjafjallajökull volcano created an ash cloud that... -
House of bricks
Posted on August 5, 2010 | 1 CommentIt was Peru’s worst ever earthquake, killing over 74,000 people, partly because the buildings made of adobe – sun dried bricks made of earth and straw – collapsed. The 1970... -
Don’t blame nature
Posted on August 5, 2010 | 1 CommentTyphoon Ketsana hit Manila on the night of 25 September 2009. I wasn’t concerned: we Filipinos are used to frequent storms. After all, we live in the Pacific, the birthplace... -
Wrecking reefs
Posted on August 5, 2010 | 1 CommentWe call hurricanes, tsunamis and floods disasters because they harm humans – but what about the havoc they wreak in ocean ecosystems? In fact, they can all cause fish to... -
A grey world
Posted on August 5, 2010 | No CommentsI come from Vík í Mýrdal, a village on Iceland’s south coast, 37 kilometres from Eyjafjallajökull volcano. My family, some of whom are farmers, still live there. Currently, I live... -
A disaster documented
Posted on August 5, 2010 | 1 CommentIn mid-June 2010, photographer and author James Duncan Davidson joined a group of photographers and a videographer to document the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. He... -
Hazards & catastrophes
Posted on August 5, 2010 | No CommentsWe call them ‘natural disasters’, but it is usually human actions that turn hazards into catastrophes, either by causing the disasters in the first place, or by making them very... -
Numbers
Posted on August 5, 2010 | 3 Comments8 cm The shift of the Earth’s axis caused by the 2010 earthquake in the Pacific, 11 kilometres off the coast of Chile. The huge quake caused damage estimated at...
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