Environment Management and Disaster Reduction
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Session concept paper of UNEP Thematic Session on 'Environmental Management and Disaster Reduction: Building a Multi-stakeholder Partnership ' which was held on 19 January 2005 at the World Conference on Disaster Reduction in Kobe, 2005.
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