Disaster risk management programs for priority countries

This publications focuses on 20 core countries with high vulnerability to natural hazards and low economic resilience to cope with disaster impacts including anticipated climate change and variability: Burkina Faso, Djibouti, Ethiopia, Ghana, Haiti, Indonesia, Kyrgyz Republic, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Marshall Islands, Mozambique, Nepal, Panama, Papua New Guinea, Senegal, Solomon Islands, Togo, Vietnam, and Republic of Yemen. For each of them, it gives a summary of hazard profiles and ongoing disaster risk management programs.

Date:

2009

Pages:

295 p.

Sources:

World Bank, the (WB)
United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR)
Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery, the (GFDRR)

Keywords

Themes:: Disaster Risk Management
Countries:: Burkina Faso, Djibouti, Ethiopia, Ghana, Haiti, Indonesia, Kyrgyzstan, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Marshall Islands, Mozambique, Nepal, Panama, Papua New Guinea, Senegal, Solomon Islands, Togo, Viet Nam, Yemen