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Working with Nature for Disaster Risk Reduction |
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| As well as providing us with products essential to life and livelihoods - food, fuel, medicine and construction materials - ecosystems act as natural, dynamic barriers that can help protect people from natural hazards and the impacts of climate change. Sound environmental management can reduce the scale and occurrence of certain disasters. The destruction of ecosystems, such as floodplains and forests, is endangering those communities that are most vulnerable to the effects of climate change and natural hazards. ProAct is actively pushing for more wide-scale and informed use and | 
Wetlands and coastal ecosystems such as mangroves can be managed to reduce the impact of floods and storm surges. | | protection of ecosystems to strengthen community and environmental resilience. Our projects combine practical on-the-ground disaster risk reduction with research by leading eco-engineering experts. |
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