Expressing deep concern at the number and scale of natural disasters and their increasing impact within recent years, and reaffirming the need for sustainable measures at all levels to reduce the vulnerability of societies to natural hazards, using an integrated, multi-hazard and participatory approach to addressing vulnerability, risk assessment, and disaster prevention, mitigation, preparedness, response and recovery,
表示深为关切近年来自然灾害的数目和规模及其不断增大的影响，重申应在各级采取可持续的措施降低社会面对自然危害的脆弱性，采用综合和针对多种危害的参与性办法，处理脆弱性、风险评估和防灾、减灾、备灾、抗灾和恢复问题，