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The 2019 Global Assessment Report (GAR)

Emergency Planning

MAY 30, 2019

The United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction was born out of the International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction, 1990-2000. On 1 May 2019 it was renamed the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction. Unofficial voices have suggested that the 'cure to damage ratio' for natural hazards is 1:43.

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Haiti: has there been progress in disaster reduction since the last big earthquake?

Emergency Planning

AUGUST 20, 2021

In his words, "the colonial institutions’ assiduous extraction of surpluses left the population both destitute and vulnerable to hazards for centuries to come." Stability, good governance and democratic participation are essential ingredients of disaster risk reduction. Krimgold (eds) 2015. Disasters 38(S1): S25-S49. [iv]

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