Essentials of urban disaster risk reduction
In Disaster management: global challenges and local solutions:
This article describes some basic terms on the subject of urban disaster risk reduction to develop an understanding of risks critical to urban areas and ways to minimize not only the losses but the risks as well.
It then summarizes the underlying factors, such as urban population, structures, setting, compact forms, primacy, informal settlements, economic imbalances, services and management, making urban risk more critical then in any other built environment that should be deconstructed in order to understand the urban risk and its impacts on local environment.
Finally, it shows the way ahead with ‘Words into Action: A Guide for Implementing the Hyogo Framework’ as a starting point to build on when designing and implementing new urban disaster risk reduction policies and practices.
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