2015年8月28日 联合国亚太经济和社会委员会今天在一份新闻公报中指出，该机构发起一项新的灾害风险管理网上电子学习平台，以帮助亚太地区各国，特别是灾害多发国家，加强复原能力建设，以从灾害中早日恢复。
公报指出，该机构此次这次发起的“灾害风险管理地理参考信息系统”网站提供了先进的网上课程，包括空间技术以及早期预警和多灾害评估地理信息系统的运用。联合国副秘书长兼亚太经社会执行秘书阿赫塔尔指出，过去45年里以来，亚太地区发生自然灾害使该地区60亿民众受到影响，200多万人死亡，造成的经济损失高达1.15万亿美元。他强调，灾难管理需要多层面地展开，汇集来自不同渠道的相关信息，将空间数据与现有的社会经济数据结合起来，以帮助各国做出更加明智的决定，以挽救更多人的生命。
28 August 2015 The United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific （ESCAP） released a statement and said that they have launched an innovative new online e-learning platform on disaster risk management to help countries in the region – the world’s most disaster prone - build their capacities to withstand， adapt to and recover from natural disasters.
The Geo-referenced Information Systems for Disaster Risk Management （Geo-DRM） portal offers state-of-the-art courses on space technology， along with Geographic Information System （GIS） applications for early warning and multi-hazard risk assessment. United Nations Under-Secretary-General and Executive Secretary of ESCAP， Dr. Shamshad Akhtar， said that over the past 45 years， natural disasters in Asia and the Pacific have affected 6 billion people， led to more than 2 million deaths and caused major economic losses totaling US$1.15 trillion. She stressed that disaster management required a multi-disciplinary approach， collating and consolidating information from various sources， incorporating spatial data into existing socioeconomic data. These would help governments to make more informed decisions， ultimately saving more lives.
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编辑 李贻丽 翻译 于晓霆
Edited by Li Yili Translated by Yu Xiaoting