Tsunami risk reduction
Source
United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction
University of Colombo
United Nations University Institute for Environment and Human Security
The aim of this paper is to review the application of Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) methodologies related to tsunami risk, with a focus on south-east Asia, especially Indonesia and Sri Lanka, which were highly impacted by the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami.
This publication offers the following recommendations for bridging the potential implementation gap:
- more detailed studies regarding why priorities of the Hyogo Framework for Action (HFA) were not applied;
- provision of strong institutional basis to clarify the role and requirements of vulnerability and risk information;
- clarification of the roles of government agencies, local community and private sector;
- more work on the development of indicators and criteria to determine the use of vulnerability information;
- effective application of the knowledge about vulnerability aspects for successful implementation of DRR measures;
- making use of risk and vulnerability indicators and assessment methodologies.
This document is an input paper for the 2015 Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction.
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