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Environmental Protection and Disaster Risk Reduction: A Community Leader's Guide

dc.contributorEconomy Divisionen_US
dc.contributor.authorUnited Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reductionen_US
dc.contributor.authorUnited Nations Environment Programmeen_US
dc.contributor.otherUmvoto Africaen_US
dc.coverage.spatialGlobalen_US
dc.date.accessioned2019-08-06T08:10:17Z
dc.date.available2019-08-06T08:10:17Z
dc.date.issued2004
dc.identifier.urihttps://wedocs.unep.org/20.500.11822/29195
dc.descriptionThis Guide provides an introduction to the use of environmental protection and disaster risk reduction as practices critical for promoting sustainable development, and then proceeds to indicate how these are applicable at the community level. Examples of some of the successes achieved by African communities are used to demonstrate how these principles can be applied.Disasters occur when hazards severely affect vulnerable communities or natural ecosystems beyond their coping capacity, and can result from both natural and human-induced hazards. Their impact upon human settlements makes them one of the most important challenges for the international community to address. Managing and reducing disaster risk is important to safeguard the welfare of people and the environment, and as such, environmental protection goes hand-in-hand with disaster risk management. The Guide considers how sound environmental protection can help to reduce the vulnerability of both the natural environment, human settlements and enterprises to hazards, as well as bolstering their capacity to absorb the impacts of disaster events.en_US
dc.formatTexten_US
dc.languageEnglishen_US
dc.publisherUnited Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reductionen_US
dc.rightsPublicen_US
dc.subjectDISASTER PREPAREDNESSen_US
dc.subjectDISASTER PREVENTIONen_US
dc.subjectENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATIONen_US
dc.subjectENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENTen_US
dc.subjectENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTIONen_US
dc.subjectRISK MANAGEMENTen_US
dc.subjectHAZARDSen_US
dc.subjectDISASTER RISK REDUCTIONen_US
dc.titleEnvironmental Protection and Disaster Risk Reduction: A Community Leader's Guideen_US
dc.typeReports, Books and Bookletsen_US
wd.identifier.sdgSDG 14 - Life Below Wateren_US
wd.identifier.sdgSDG 15 - Life on Landen_US
wd.identifier.sdgSDG 16 - Peace, Justice and Strong Institutionsen_US
wd.topicsDisasters and Conflictsen_US
wd.identifier.pagesnumber61 pagesen_US


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