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Tourism and disaster management stakeholders across the Caribbean are collaborating to implement a master plan to protect the region's tourism industry against the impact of natural disasters....

Inter-American Development Bank - sponsored system of disaster risk and risk management indicators presented at the World Conference on Disaster Reduction in Kobe, Japan. The indices estimate disaster risk loss, distribution, vulnerability and management

This is the Law by which a national risk management policy is adopted and the National System for the Prevention, Mitigation and Attention of Disasters of the Dominican Republic is created.

The national emergency plan establishes the institutional and inter-institutional framework for the actions of the Government and civil society in the event of a threat or existence of a disaster to safeguard life.