Whether we facean immediate, emergency situation like the BP spill, or the gradual accumulation of challenges and degradation, our responsibilities to address the problems and find solutions are exactly the same.
Authorities facean additional logistical challenge in helping local communities because emergency supplies were already depleted from the response to the earlier quake.
Mr Ponta had tried to scrap the requirement of a minimum turnout for the referendum through anemergency decree, but in the face of unusually strong criticism from the EU, he reversed course.