+ Improving the disaster information base: 6XIÂżFLHQW LQIRUPDWLRQ LV RI HVVHQWLDO LPSRU- tance  to  preventing  and  coping  with  disasters.  For  this  reason,  governments  ought  to  system- atically  make  risk  assessments,  establish  threat  potentials,  compile  contingency  plans  and  calculate  the  costs  of  possible  disasters  ex  ante.  Also,  all  private  enterprises  potentially  affect- ed  by  disasters  ought  to  be  obliged  to  conduct  corresponding  risk  assessments.  This  applies  in  particular  prior  to  the  introduction  of  new,  as  yet  untested  technologies  that  could  have  a  massive  ecological  impact,  such  as  forms  of  “geo-Âengineeringâ€?.  All  this  information  ought  to  be  provided  to  the  public  free  of  charge.  In  the  event  of  a  disaster,  it  is  also  important  for  the  public  and  the  media  to  be  supplied  with  comprehensive  and  immediate  information.  An  independent  checking  of  information  has  to  be  ensured. + Ensuring equal participation: In  order  to  enhance  adaptability  to  environ- mental  change  and  raise  coping  capacities  in  the  event  of  a  disaster,  the  people  affected  have  to  be  comprehensively  integrated  into  the  political  decision-Âmaking  processes  at  community  and  national  level,  with  equal  participation  of  women  being  ensured.  This  also  applies  to  the  coordination  and  allo- cation  of  disaster  relief.  Here,  the  basis  for  decision-Âmaking  includes  gender  studies  and  statistics  that  can  be  broken  down  according  to  gender,  too.  + Setting standards to make infrastructure disaster-proof: In  order  to  reduce  vulnerability  to  disasters  and  reduce  the  extent  of  potential  harm  and  damage,  physical  infrastructure  in  the  respective  regions  has  to  be  made  disaster- proof.  One  precondition  for  this  is  adequate  construction  and  safety  standards  for  EXLOGLQJV EULGJHV URDGV HWF &RPSO\LQJ ZLWK them  has  to  be  systematically  monitored  in  the  countries  at  risk,  and  should  the  need  DULVH LW KDV WR EH ÂżQDQFLDOO\ VXSSRUWHG YLD WKH
Terms used in the Post-2015 Development Agenda Millennium Development Goals In 2000, the heads of states and governments from more than 150 countries adopted the United Nations Millennium Declaration. One of the items it contained was a set of internationally agreed development goals that were to subsequently become referred to as the “Millennium Development Goals� (MDGs) and act as a guiding concept in international development politics. With them, the discourse on development focused on addressing the most extreme forms of poverty and hunger and on basic social provisions for the population, especially in the fields of primary education, health and water supply. Most of the MDGs are linked to clear quantitative, and therefore verifiable, objectives that are to be reached by 2015. Together with what are now 21 sub-targets and 60 indicators, the eight MDGs form an important reference frame for poverty reduction and development. However, they also bear severe shortcomings, for the structural framework conditions of development remain just as much in the dark in the MDG catalogue as the ecological dimension of development does. Neither do human rights, democracy or good governance play any substantial role. Finally, the modes of consumption and production of the industrialized countries, with their grave consequences regarding climate change and the increase in the risk of disasters, are not addressed in the MDGs. At the 2010 “MDG Summit�, the governments commissioned the UN Secretary General with the task of developing proposals on the future of the MDGs and the United Nations Development Agenda after 2015. Since then, intensive debates have started on the Post2015 Development Agenda. In parallel, at the
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