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

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dc.contributor.authorUnited Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction
dc.contributor.authorUmvoto Africa
dc.contributor.authorUnited Nations Environment Programme
dc.contributor.organizationEconomy Division
dc.date.accessioned2019-08-06T08:10:17Z
dc.date.available2019-08-06T08:10:17Z
dc.date.issued2004-10
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
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dc.identifier.urihttps://wedocs.unep.org/handle/20.500.11822/29195
dc.languageEnglish
dc.page.number61 p.
dc.publisherUnited Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction
dc.rights.accessLevelPublic
dc.subjectdisaster preparedness
dc.subjectdisaster prevention
dc.subjectenvironmental degradation
dc.subjectenvironmental management
dc.subjectenvironmental protection
dc.subjectrisk management
dc.subjecthazard
dc.subjectdisaster risk reduction
dc.titleEnvironmental Protection and Disaster Risk Reduction: A Community Leader's Guideen
dc.typeCommunication or other resource

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