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Natural disasters such as floods, heat-waves, forest fires, earthquakes, environmental disasters caused by toxic waste release, toxic industrial accidents, serious industrial accidents and terrorist attacks are, by nature, extremely unpredictable, and consequently claim countless victims and cause significant economic damage. What we must do is work together and exchange information, streamline resources, carry out research and seek technical solutions that limit the damage as far as possible, but most importantly, we must pursue a policy of investing in prevention and education involving political institutions at Community, national, regional and local level and all civil society organisations in a unified, responsible and differentiated partnership.
People say, in their infinite wisdom, that ‘prevention is better than cure’, and this dictum aptly applies to the forest fires that devastated Portugal in the summers of 2003 and 2004 and to the oil spills from the
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We welcome the fact that the Community action plan in the field of civil protection has been extended and that its budget has been increased, but we also feel that this is an issue that, in light of its permanent nature, should not be subject to time constraints.
Civil protection intervention also falls under the category of mainstreaming: based on new agricultural models and land-use planning that humanises urban and industrial growth..."@en1
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