Visions of Risk: A Review of International Indicators of Disaster Risk & Its Management

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Year: 2004
Pages: 56
Binding Paperback

Product Code: 0756749948

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Mark Pelling (au); Salvano Briceno (fr). A report for the ISDR Inter-Agency Task Force on Disaster Reduction, Working Group 3: Risk, Vulnerability & Disaster Impact Assessment. Coordinated by the UN Dev’t. Programme (UNDP), this report reviews 3 important initiatives which represent the first comprehensive global & regional assessments of disaster risk: the Disaster Risk Indexing project (DRI) of the UNDP in partnership with the UN Environment Programme-Global Resource Information Database (UNEP-GRID); the Hotspots indexing project implemented by Columbia Univ., the ProVention Consortium (under the umbrella of the World Bank); & the Americas programme of IDEA in partnership with the Inter-American Development Bank (IADB). Charts & tables.

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