DISASTER RISK
Enhancing capacities in disaster risk reduction in Burkina Faso and Mali
... and disaster risk education the report determines that “there are no integration programs linked to preparedness to disasters in the school curricula (other than a sensitization course on road safety for ...
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Local disaster risk reduction: Lessons from the andes
... for disaster risk reduction and control are established and maintained rather than referring to single or multiple individual intervention ...the risk management process, but do not defi ne the ...
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Strengthening Disaster Risk Reduction Across the Americas Summit - Simulated Exercise
... _"Strengthening Disaster Risk Reduction Across the Americas: A Regional Summit on the Contributions of Earth Observations" held September 3-8 in 2017 in Buenos Aires, Argentina strengthened the ...
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Towards Mainstreaming Disaster Risk Reduction into the Planning Process of Road Construction
... of disaster risks. During detailed design, disaster risk reduction aspects are incorporated into the project if ...far disaster risk reduction measures to be incorporated at early ...
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Review of the Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction: Enabling Child-Centred Agency
... tred disaster risk reduction projects in the Philippines and El Salvador provides an overview of institutional and legal frameworks that limit or enable developing capacity rather than focusing on ...
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A system of indicators for disaster risk management in the Americas
... measuring risk so that it can be given the priority that it deserves in the de- velopment ...Once risk has been identified and measured, activities can then be implemented to reduce and control ...
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LIMA DECLARATION FOR DISASTER RISK MANAGEMENT OF CULTURAL HERITAGE
... for Disaster Risk Management of Cultural Heritage" was drafted and proposed by the professio- nals below, and adopted with the applau- se and common consent of all the parti- cipants of the ...
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Asset pricing under habit formation and disaster risk
... international disaster probabilities, which support a level of risk sufficient to change the economic ...is disaster risk. I use the disaster calibration of Barro (2006) in this ...
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Mainstreaming natural disaster risk management into social protection policies (and vice versa) in Latina America and the Caribbean
... Public works (or workfare) programs are safety nets that have been implemented around the world to counter the negative impacts of natural disasters and economic crisis. Typically, they provide short-term employment ...
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GLOBAL REPORT REDUCING DISASTER RISK A CHALLENGE FOR DEVELOPMENT, A
... Today, disaster reduction is a key component of UNDP efforts in crisis prevention and ...for disaster preparedness in 1989, with an approved policy framework aimed ‘to stimulate the interest and actions ...
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Disaster risk management programs for priority countries
... in 1994 the capital of East New Britain was rendered non-functional due to a twin-volcanic eruptions from Tavurvur and Vulcan mountains. As a result, they moved the capital to Kokopo including the airstrip and the ...
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Cost benefit studies on disaster risk reduction in developing countries
... The question that arises next, however, is whether more data collection would address the “deep uncertainties” related to highly complex phenomena such as climate change, mega-disasters, uncontrolled urbanization, ...
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Earthquake loss assessment for integrated disaster risk management
... earthquake risk impose a dreadful threat not only for private insurers and reinsures, but also for governments whom in turn are risk-takers for most of the uninsured and uninsurable ...seismic risk ...
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Information on disaster risk management
... such risk transfer- ence mechanisms to assume a broad role in the ...a disaster and for reducing losses from future ...on risk, insurance can encourage individuals and owners to adopt reinforcement ...
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Observations on strengthening community participation in disaster risk reduction in disaster law and policy
... The exclusively top-down enactment and implementation of DRR measures has indeed proven its inadequacy to reach those most affected by disasters and concerns that it may even make affected populations more vulnerable ...
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A guide to measuring urban risk resilience
... and risk maps and technological hazard ...Regarding Risk Reduction the city in 2003 still had not implemented notable public investments that were identified as priorities, such as the seismic retrofitting ...
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Disaster Mitigation and Prevention Policies for Sustaintable Development
... Natural Disaster Reduction, Yoko hama, May 1994, the meeting constitutes an informal policy dialogue at executive level and aims at contributing to an update and review of acti vities, progress and deficits, ...
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Natural disasters in South America
... Statistics published by the Swedish Red Cross point to the increasing risk from natural events. The annual rate of lifes lost due to natural disasters during the seventies was about seven times higher (142,920) ...
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Effective management of disaster situations
... The efficient use of resources to reduce the ?robability that a disaster will occur by either reducing vulnerability or m:xhfying the hazard. (In the case of certain types of hazard - such as flcx::d or landslide ...
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Seismic risk assessment of schools in the Andean Region in South America and Central America
... seismic risk may be reduced by the intervention of the physical vulnerability, it is necessary to promote and develop national programs of risk identification and mitigation of this ...
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