Disaster risk management systems analysis
Subtitle: a guide book
By: Stephan Baas ... [et al.].
Contributors: Baas, Stephan.; Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
Series: Environment and natural resources management series -- 13; Environment and natural resources series -- 13.
Publisher: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations; FAO
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Rome
Language: eng
Number of pages: 78
ISBN-13: 9789251060568
Subjects: Emergency management; Natural disasters; Disaster relief
Description: Disaster Risk Management (DRM) combines, through a management perspective, the concept of prevention, mitigation and preparedness with response to the rising frequency and severity of natural hazards and disasters. This guide provides a set of tools that have been developed and tested in field projects, with particular reference to disaster-prone areas and vulnerable sectors and population groups.--Publisher's description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 72).

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Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Module 1 : definitions and conceptual framework; title: Module 2 : planning an institutional assessment of disaster risk management systems; title: Module 3 : assessment of disaster risk management systems at the national level; title: Module 4 : assessment of disaster risk management systems at the district level; title: Module 5 : assessment of disaster risk management systems at the community level; title: Module 6 : Analysing and interpreting the data.