Preventable Losses: Saving Lives and Property through Hazard Risk Management - A Comprehensive Risk Management Framework for Europe and Central Asia

Content:

Disaster Risk Management Working Paper Series No. 9
The Europe and Central Asia Region is exposed to a wide range of natural hazards. Major events - such as the devastating earthquake in Turkey's Marmara region that took more than 17,000 lives in 1999 or the 2002 flooding in Central Europe, which caused economic losses estimated at more than $15 billion - are only part of the spectrum. Smaller but more frequent events also warrant attention. In the Kyrgyz Republic, for example, every year landslides kill dozens of people and destroy the homes of several hundred families. These events do not find their way into the international media, but they have disastrous effects on lives and livelihoods, particularly of poor people.
With this document, the Europe and Central Asian region is systematically promoting the implementation of a comprehensive framework that integrates risk assessment, emergency preparedness, disaster prevention, and catastrophe risk financing with the objective of reducing client countries' economic and social exposure to natural hazards on an ex ante basis. Special emphasis is given to the need to strengthen the institutional capacity to prevent and better manage emergencies.

Author:

Christoph Pusch

Organisation:

World Bank

Details:

3.7MB, pdf

Language:

English