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: http://www.preventionweb.net/ globalplatform/2013/programme/sideevent/view/498.
7
Figures from presentation given by Salvador Pérez 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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