Urban governance and community resilience guides: mainstreaming disaster risk reduction, book 4
This series of guidebooks are designed to raise awareness of the challenges local governments face in reducing disaster risks. Book 4 introduces the concept of ‘mainstreaming’ as the core framework for local government to reduce disaster risks. This guidebook demonstrates how to integrate the principles of disaster risk management into development goals, governance arrangements and action strategies.
These guidebooks offer essential tools and possible solutions to make that will help local governments to make effective decisions. The guidebooks can be used as self-study material by individual readers, as a resource for participants in a training course or program, or as a reference for government officials.