Community-Based Disaster Risk Reduction
Community-Based Disaster Risk Reduction Communities are at the core of disaster risk reduction (DRR), and community based approaches are getting increasing focus in national DRR plans. The roles of…
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Community-Based Disaster Risk Reduction
Communities are at the core of disaster risk reduction (DRR), and community based approaches are getting increasing focus in national DRR plans. The roles of communities in pre-disaster preparedness are also very important. In the case of past disasters, communities were always the first responders, and took leading roles in the post disaster recovery.
It provides an overview of the subject and looks at the role of governments, NGOs, academics and corporate sectors in community based disaster risk reduction. This is the first comprehensive book available on CBDRR (community based disaster risk reduction) which outlines both research and practice, citing field examples and research results. It proceeds to examine experiences from Asian and African countries, and concludes by looking ahead to the future perspective of