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Displaying 3 of about 3 resultsThis report asserts that the more widespread integration of science into disaster risk reduction policy making will depend on science being ‘useful, useable and used’. The case studies in the report describe specific examples of scientific learning being employed to enhance disaster risk reduction, providing evidence that science is useable for disaster…
A PowerPoint presentation at the South Asia Policy Dialog Workshop, New Delhi, India 21-22 August 2006.
This study presents a rapid disaster risk assessment carried out in Banda Aceh, Indonesia, to: (i) identify major hazards, assess vulnerabilities and analyze risks of future disasters, and (ii) recommend key mitigating measures to make prospective communities in Mutiara village resilient to disasters.
It reveals that earthquake, tsunami, flooding, inund…