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Displaying 5 of about 5 resultsThe United Nations National Strategy for Disaster reduction is coordinating the 2010-2011 World Disaster Reduction Campaign “Making Cities Resilient: My City is getting ready!”. The overall campaign goal is to achieve resilient, sustainable urban communities through actions taken by local governments to reduce disaster risk. The International Day for Di…
Forum on Disaster Risk Reduction
Associated with the Shanghai Expo 2010 'Better Cities, Better Life'
Shanghai, 28-30 July 2010
Announcement
Background
The theme of the Shanghai Expo 2010 is "Better City, Better Life," - the wish for a better living in present and future urban environments. This theme represents a central concern of the internation…
Background
The International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (ISDR) is a multi-disciplinary and multistakeholder platform to enable societies to increase their resilience to natural, technological and environmental disasters and to reduce associated environmental, human and economic and social risk and losses. A range of United Nations organizations and…
Urban areas are central to the functioning of national economies and societies. They concentrate people, economic production, and decision-making institutions, but they can also result in a high concentration of vulnerability to climatic and geological hazards such as earthquakes, landslides, hurricanes and floods.
The highly urbanized nations of the…
This collection of good practices shows how building the capacity of local institutions is key to sustaining disaster risk reduction, and demonstrates the immediate impact of local and national political commitments that institutionalise disaster risk reduction. It also showcases collaboration between local and national governments, civil society organi…