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This
has to be an integrated effort.
And, perhaps more importantly, it has to be a sustained
effort. We have a
long history of successful programs being abandoned for political
reasons with a change of administration (the demise of Project Impact in
the United States immediately after the inauguration of the Bush
Administration is a classic example).
Unfortunately, disasters do not time their occurrence to the
shifts of ideology (except when those shifts facilitate human systems
failures). Therefore, only
sustained, long term effort, maintained even when no disasters occur for
decades or centuries, can provide true resistance and resilience.
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