UNISDR
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...
10 Dec 2011
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SIDS Policy and Practice
11 November 2010: The World Bank and the UN have released a joint report titled “Natural Hazards, UnNatural Disasters: The Economics of Effective Prevention,” which analyzes disasters from an economics perspective.
The report stresses the need for prevention to reduce countries’ vulnerability to natural hazards in order to enable their sustainable and cost-effective development. It outlines a number of measures to prevent death and destruction from natural hazards such as...
