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Tools for Mainstreaming Disaster Risk Reduction: Guidance Notes for Development Organisations [Arabic]
Outils d’intégration de la réduction des risques de catastrophes: Notes d'orientation à l'intention des organisations de développement
Mainstreaming Disaster Risk Reduction into Development: Challenges and Experience in the Philippines
Herramientas para la integración de la reducción del riesgo de desastres: Notas de orientación para organizaciones de desarrollo

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Building Safer Cities - The Future of Disaster Risk

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Disaster Risk Management Working Paper Series No. 3
By 2050, the world population is expected to grow by 3 billion people. Most of this growth will take place in developing countries - and within these countries, in cities and towns - more than doubling urban populations. Large numbers of people will be concentrated in megacities and on fragile lands, making reduction of vulnerability to disasters in metropolitan areas a critical challenge facing development. Disaster impacts are increasing in severity. Moreover, a number of ongoing trends have the potential to cause even more severe and broader disaster impacts than ever before. These include increased environmental degradation, the impacts of climate change, population growth in cities, and globalisation. The papers in this publication were prepared as background materials for the conference on The Future of Disaster Risk: Building Safer Cities held at the World Bank from December 4 to December 6, 2002.

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Edited by Alcira Kreimer, Margaret Arnold, and Anne Carlin

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World Bank

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3.4MB, pdf

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English

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