Disaster Mitigation - 2nd Edition (Department of Humanitarian Affairs/United Nations Disaster Relief Office - Disaster Management Training Programme - United Nations Development Programme , 1994, 64 p.)

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United Nations reorganization and the Disaster Management Training Programme

Introduction

Part 1 - Introduction to mitigation concepts

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The sanitary revolution: a paradigm for disaster mitigation

Know your enemy: hazards and their effects

Saving life and reducing economic disruption

Targeting mitigation where it has most effect

Vulnerability

Specific Hazards and Mitigation

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Floods and water hazards

Earthquakes

Volcanic eruption

Land instabilities

Strong winds (typhoons, hurricanes, cyclones, tropical storms and tornados)

Technological hazards

Drought and desertification

SUMMARY

Part 2 - Actions to reduce risk

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Reducing hazard vs reducing vulnerability

Tools, powers and budgets

Community-based mitigation

The menu of mitigation actions

SUMMARY

Part 3 - Mitigation strategies

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Aims and methods

Economics of mitigation

Practicalities of mitigation

Opportunities for mitigation: post-disaster implementation

Empowerment and community-based mitigation

SUMMARY

Part 4 - Implementing organizations

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Building up skills and institutions

The regional context: a problem shared

International exchange of expertise

Supporting decision-making: external specialists

Knowledge dissemination

International decade for natural disaster reduction

Disaster mitigation in UNDP country programming

Initial phases of the UNDP country programming exercise

SUMMARY

Annex 1: Profile of selected United Nations agencies and their activities in disaster mitigation

Annex 2: Acronyms

Annex 3: Additional reading

Glossary

Module evaluation