Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction 2015
Making development sustainable: The future of disaster risk management


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Part III - Chapter 10
risk management as a competitive advantage instead of failing to disclose risks to potential investors. The temptation to make a few dollars more often continues to take precedence over long-term planning and sustainability in areas with high levels of hazard exposure.
Notes
1 http://www.segro.com/Slough/About (accessed 11 January 2015).
2
http://www.world-nuclear-news.org/NN-Turkey-Pointexpansion-gets-Florida-state-approval-1405141.html (accessed 11 January 2015).
3
http://www.c20society.org.uk/news/slough-town-hall-listingrefused-dcms-overturns-english-heritages-advice-again (accessed 11 January 2015).
4
http://www.ipu.org/conf-e/130/Res-2.htm.
5
http://www.datacenterdynamics.com/focus/archive/2014/03/ blackrock-measuring-risk-data-center (accessed 11 January 2015).
6
Progress presented at the 4th Session of the Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction: https://www.preventionweb.net/ globalplatform/2013/programme/sideevent/view/498.
7
Figures from presentation given by Salvador PĂ©rez Maldonado, Ministry of Finance, Mexico, at the first session of the Preparatory Committee of the World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction in Geneva, July 2014.
8
Personal communication and figures from the Monitoring and Evaluation Department of the Istanbul Governorship, 26 November 2014.
9
Personal communication and figures from Kazim Gokhan Elgin, Director of the Monitoring and Evaluation Department of the Istanbul Governorship, 26 November 2014.
10
http://www.mlit.go.jp/sogoseisaku/point/tsunamibousai. html.
11
www.unisdr.org/partners/private-sector.
12
www.preventionweb.net/rise/home.
13
www.un.org/climatechange/summit/action-areas/resilience1-in-100-initiative/.
14
UN General Assembly resolution 46/182.
15
For more information on the national risk assessment process in the UK, see https://www.gov.uk/risk-assessment-how-therisk-of-emergencies-in-the-uk-is-assessed (accessed 11 January 2015).
16
http://myanmarthilawa.com/content/three-japaneseindustrial-biggies-will-launch-special-economic-zone-myanmar (accessed 11 January 2015).
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