Recognizing also the urgent need to further develop and make use of the existing scientific and technical knowledge to build resilience to natural disasters, and emphasizing the need for developing countries to have access to appropriate, advanced, environmentally sound, cost-effective and easy-to-use technologies so as to seek more comprehensive solutions to disaster risk reduction and to effectively and efficiently strengthen their capabilities to cope with disaster risks,
又认识到迫切需要进一步开发和利用现有科学技术知识，建立抗御自然灾害的能力，并强调发展中国家需要获得适当、先进、无害环境、成本效益高和易于使用的技术，以便采取更为全面的办法，解决减少灾害风险的问题，并且切实和有效地加强其应对灾害风险的能力，