ESCAP-EPOC
10 Dec 2011
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SIDS Policy and Practice
26 October 2010: The UN International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (UN/ISDR) and the UN Economic Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) have released the Asia-Pacific Disaster Report 2010, on the sidelines of the Fourth Asian Ministerial Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction, which is convening from 24-28 October 2010, in Seoul, Republic of Korea.
The report notes that the region generated one quarter of the world’s gross domestic product (GDP), but also accounted for 85% of deaths and...
