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Asia-Pacific Disaster Report 2015: Disasters without borders - Regional resilience for sustainable development
This flagship publication of UN ESCAP provides an overview of the state of disaster resilience in Asia-Pacific region, and places disaster risk reduction at the heart of sustainable development. It identifies emerging new risks in the region and the sectors that are most at risk.
Asia-Pacific Disaster Report 2015: Disasters without borders - Regional resilience for sustainable development
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Available online: http://preventionweb.net/go/46396
Published by: ESCAP ; 2015
This flagship publication of UN ESCAP provides an overview of the state of disaster resilience in Asia-Pacific region, and places disaster risk reduction at the heart of sustainable development. It identifies emerging new risks in the region and the sectors that are most at risk.
Language(s): English
Format: Digital (Free)ISBN (or other code): 978-92-1-120699-9
Tags: Disaster Risk Management (DRM) ; Hazard risk assessment or analysis ; Early warning systems ; Cyclone ; Drought ; Earthquake ; Flood ; Region II - Asia ; Region V - South-West Pacific
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Reducing vulnerability and exposure to disasters: Asia-Pacific disaster report 2012
The primary conviction of this report is driven by a concern that people’s exposure and vulnerability, experienced individually and collectively, continue to be twin challenges for the Asia-Pacific region. Faced with growing economic losses and increasingly vulnerable populations, this report has analyzed the drivers of risks and the strategies that are in place to deal with the growing risks.
The report has pursued three primary questions that all dedicated collaborators in the region need to join, “How do they and the people with whom they work understand the disaster risks in ...
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Available online: http://preventionweb.net/go/29288
Tiziana Bonapace ; Sanjay Kumar Srivastava ; Sujit Mohanty ; Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific ; United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction
Published by: UN/ISDR, ESCAP ; 2012The primary conviction of this report is driven by a concern that people’s exposure and vulnerability, experienced individually and collectively, continue to be twin challenges for the Asia-Pacific region. Faced with growing economic losses and increasingly vulnerable populations, this report has analyzed the drivers of risks and the strategies that are in place to deal with the growing risks.
The report has pursued three primary questions that all dedicated collaborators in the region need to join, “How do they and the people with whom they work understand the disaster risks in the region better?”, “How can all concerned stakeholders intensify their own work on vulnerability reduction in a truly concerted, consistent and sustained way?”, and “What strategies are needed and can be applied to reduce socioeconomic exposure to hazards?”Language(s): English
Format: Digital (Free)Tags: Natural hazards ; Disaster prevention and preparedness ; Vulnerability ; Social aspects ; Region II - Asia ; Region V - South-West Pacific
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Report of the ECAFE/WMO Preparatory Mission on Typhoons : a report on existing and proposed measures for minimizing typhoon damage
World Meteorological Organization (WMO) ; Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) - WMO, 1967
Report of the ECAFE/WMO Preparatory Mission on Typhoons: a report on existing and proposed measures for minimizing typhoon damage
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World Meteorological Organization (WMO) ; Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific
Published by: WMO, ESCAP ; 1967Notes: Loan to N. Lomarda on 26/07/2017
Language(s): English
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