Disaster risk management

The book contains the proceedings and background materials of the workshop organized by WBI and Marmara University under the same title. The workshop and the book was developed with the objective of addressing the specific issues and challenges that local

Understanding risk to humans is one of the most important problems in environmental public health. Risk assessment is constantly changing with the advent of new exposure assessment tools, more sophisticated models, and a better understanding of disease

This report shows that successful disaster risk reduction policies, integrated into development work, save lives and money, making vulnerable communities more resilient and protecting development gains. This report examines how to achieve those goals –

A workshop on the development of disaster resistant sustainable forestation and plantation introduces technology invented by Bangladesh Forest Research Institute (BFRI)...

ISDR system partner Caribbean Disaster Emergency Response Agency (CDERA) to participate in a panel on challenges for the Caribbean’s coastal tourism environment at the 10th annual Caribbean conference on sustainable tourism development...

Sixty-second session
Item 56 (c) of the provisional agenda
Sustainable development: International Strategy for Disaster Reduction

The number of disasters and the scale of their impacts continue to grow, driven largely by the increasing vulnerability to

The State Government of Orissa on Tuesday sought financial assistance of Rs 609 crore from the Centre to save the state from natural calamities caused by global warming....

This book includes more than thirty recommendations for the hazards and disaster community.