The Asia-Pacific Disaster Report 2015: Disasters without Borders - Regional Resilience for Sustainable Development
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The world&apos;s most disaster-prone region has witnessed natural disasters that affected development. Building resilience to natural disasters is crucial. Disaster risk reduction (DRR) must be integrated into national development planning. This report assesses the state of resilience in the region, and disaster-related goals and targets of the Sustainable Development Goals and the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction. It highlights drought and reviews information management that would equip many countries in providing the right information to the right people at the right time, paying attention to the need to integrate DRR into development planning and government. The goal is to build resilience towards achieving sustainable development.


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Language: English
File size: 67522 KB
Publisher: United Nations
Publication date: February 29, 2016
subtitle: Kindle Edition
author: United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific United Nations Publications