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Margareta Wahlström

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Margareta Wahlström is Head of the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR).

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The Year of Resilience

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Jan 16, 2015 Margareta Wahlström calls on world leaders to strengthen measures aimed at mitigating disaster risk.

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Safer Climate Disasters

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Jun 13, 2014 Kristalina Georgieva & Margareta Wahlström issue a call for greater efforts to reduce the risks associated with extreme weather events.

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Disaster-Proof Development

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Nov 1, 2013 Margareta Wahlström on climate change and the exposure of economic assets.

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Women, Girls, and Disasters

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Oct 10, 2012 Margareta Wahlström

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Japan’s Resilience Lessons

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Mar 6, 2012 Margareta Wahlström

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Putin Overplays His Hand

Aug 17, 2018 Christopher R. Hill thinks Kremlin interference in the Balkans risks alienating countries that have been sympathetic to Russia.

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Taming the Tech Monster

Aug 17, 2018 Guy Verhofstadt urges radical reform of the Internet to address the dysfunctions of the digital age.

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Can Turkey Rewrite the Crisis-Management Rules?

Aug 16, 2018 Mohamed A. El-Erian hopes the government reverses its rejection of interest-rate hikes and IMF support before it's too late.

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A Better World Is Here

Aug 16, 2018 Bjørn Lomborg focuses on the extraordinary social, economic, and environmental progress humanity has achieved since 1990.

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Why Strengthening Land Rights Strengthens Development

Aug 16, 2018 Mahmoud Mohieldin & Anna Wellenstein highlight the relationship between secure land tenure and long-term economic and social progress.

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Erdoğan’s Authoritarian Quackery

Aug 15, 2018 Nina L. Khrushcheva argues that the Turkish president's bizarre theories provide some fundamental insight into dictatorship.

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The Zero-Sum Economy

Aug 15, 2018 Adair Turner explains why distributive activities are growing at the expense of creative activities.

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Confronting Journalism’s Misogynistic Trolls

Aug 15, 2018 Hannah Storm worries that the media's gender balance is being threatened by a surge in online harassment.

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