Disaster resilience in Asia—A special supplement of Asia’s journey to prosperity: Policy, market, and technology over 50 years
This supplement focuses on disasters triggered by natural hazards, explores the effects of COVID-19 and policy responses, and highlights lessons from across the region. Asia and the Pacific has seen tremendous economic and social progress since the 1960s. Yet, the region remains vulnerable to natural hazards and to rising disaster risk that threatens its hard-won gains. The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic has illustrated how high the human and economic costs of disasters can be.
The special supplement concludes with policy lessons of disaster resilience that developing Asian economies can gain from each other’s individual and collective experiences. Regional economies can carry these lessons forward to accelerate recovery and, hopefully, build back greener, from one of the worst global health crises in recent history, and prepare them for future disaster risks.