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It’s time to shift our perspective from ‘disaster management’ to climate resilience

Improving our climate resilience would likely mean we will spend less on disaster response because it would help us anticipate shocks, mitigate the damages and help us bounce back from them faster.

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BY MAYA PAPINEAU
March 25, 2019

Opinion | BY MAYA PAPINEAU | March 25, 2019

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It’s time to shift our perspective from ‘disaster management’ to climate resilience

Improving our climate resilience would likely mean we will spend less on disaster response because it would help us anticipate shocks, mitigate the damages and help us bounce back from them faster.

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