Disaster Reduction in Urban Areas

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Publication language
English
Pages
15pp
Date published
01 Jul 1995
Type
Research, reports and studies
Keywords
Disaster risk reduction, Urban, Disaster preparedness, resilience and risk reduction
Organisations
United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA)

 The paper emphasises the effect of urbanization on the level of risk to natural disasters, and highlights the need to address disaster management in the context of urban development palnning.