Disaster risk reduction and sustainable development: the role for occupational health

Community-Based disaster risk Management towards Sustainable Development

Background and Purpose:With the rise of natural disasters, different societies have continually sought to discover solutions to control or minimize the damage caused by unexpected events and to actually manage disasters. In the past few decades, the need for social participation to reduce disasters has increased. The community-based disaster  risk management framework is growing. Therefore, thi...

Integrated Policy Making for Sustainable Development: Goal 6 and the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction

Making the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction work for sustainable mountain development

Mountain systems are very diverse and so is the pattern of natural hazards. Worldwide disaster databases show that associated human and economic losses are significant but vary greatly between and within mountain regions. Continued changes in climate, land use and socio-economic conditions are likely to lead to vastly altered mountain landscapes in the future, with associated implications for h...

Making the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction work for sustainable mountain development

Brief for GSDR 2015 Transforming disaster risk reduction for more inclusive , equitable and sustainable development

This article highlights three key areas in which efforts to reduce the underlying causes of vulnerability and drivers of risk to environmental hazards need to be improved in order to create more inclusive, equitable and sustainable development: 1) the role of context and culture in creating risk, 2) the need to better link disaster risk reduction (DRR), climate change adaptation (adaptation) an...