Reducing Disaster Risk: A Challenge for Development

Publication language
English
Pages
161pp
Date published
01 Jan 2004
Type
Research, reports and studies
Keywords
Disaster preparedness, resilience and risk reduction, Disasters
Organisations
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)

The Report argues that disaster risk is not inevitable and offers examples of good practice in disaster risk reduction that can be built into ongoing development planning policy. These examples are summarised in this Executive Summary.