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Pakistan: Disaster management

by Flickr user DFID - UK Department for International Development, Creative Commons BY 2.0, http://www.flickr.com/photos/dfid/5333104910/

The Business Recorder describes the vulnerabilities faced by Pakistan, ranging from earthquakes, floods, droughts, cyclones, landslides and sea-based hazards, and calls for the establishment of a disaster management structure with a mitigation policy to manage and co-ordinate activities of various line ministries, departments and civil society in order to provide massive relief, recovery, and rehabilitation and reconstruction. It reminds that Pakistan is a signatory of the international disaster risk reduction protocol, the Hyogo Framework for Action 2005-2015 and asserts research is required on current coping mechanisms and on sustainable community approaches to disaster reduction.

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Keywords

  • Themes:Disaster Risk Management, Governance
  • Hazards:Cyclone, Drought, Earthquake, Flood, Land Slide
  • Countries/Regions:Pakistan

  • Short URL:http://preventionweb.net/go/24154

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