We have trusted our elected officials to make sound policies for public safety and protection from disaster too.

FORBES: The Banality of Catastrophe: The New Normal of Oil Spills

The occurrence of natural disasters over the last couple of years has increased awareness of the need for data protection and disaster recovery.

FORBES: Storage System Trends for 2013 and Beyond

Founded in 2003, StorageCraft Technology Corporation provides disk based backup, disaster recovery, data protection, migration, and security solutions to businesses of all sizes.

FORBES: Success in the Cloud Begins with Integration

In contrast, maximizing emerging energy-efficient technologies and water-wise renewable energy sources ( biofuels, wind, and solar in particular) enhance disaster resilience and environmental protection.

FORBES: Evan Mills

Its overall objective is to provide actors responsible for disaster management, risk prevention, civil protection and also spatial planning with EO-based solutions contributing particularly to an improved preparedness and mitigation planning for areas highly vulnerable to natural disasters and already noticeable climate change trends.

UNESCO: OFFICE IN VENICE

The Environment Agency is asking local authorities in the north of England for a 63% increase in funding for flood protection schemes to avert another similar disaster.

BBC: Clampdown on flood risk housing

The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds has warned the cold weather threatens to be the greatest wildlife disaster of the new millennium.

BBC: Cold fuel payment increase urged