Building safer coastal communities: community development is the key to reducing the impact of natural hazards

Source(s): United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction

The Indian Ocean tsunami demonstrated the high vulnerability and low resilience of coastal communities in disaster situations. In order to build safer coastal communities, Denmark is organising an International Workshop entitled, “Strengthening the resilience of local communities to cope with water related natural hazards”, to be held in Copenhagen, Denmark, from 16-18 November.

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