 | Disaster Mitigation - 2nd Edition (Department of Humanitarian Affairs/United Nations Disaster Relief Office - Disaster Management Training Programme - United Nations Development Programme , 1994, 64 p.) |
 |  | (introduction...) |
| | United Nations reorganization and the Disaster Management Training Programme |
| | Introduction |
|  | Part 1 - Introduction to mitigation concepts |
| | (introduction...) |
| | 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 |
| | (introduction...) |
| | 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 |
| | (introduction...) |
| | Reducing hazard vs reducing vulnerability |
| | Tools, powers and budgets |
| | Community-based mitigation |
| | The menu of mitigation actions |
| | SUMMARY |
| | Part 3 - Mitigation strategies |
| | (introduction...) |
| | 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 |
| | (introduction...) |
| | 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 |
International exchange of expertise
A wide range of mitigation actions are available. Some have been successfully implemented in one location and the experience may be useful to others. Others may have been unsuccessful and the lessons from the failure are also important to other communities considering similar plans. Lessons of one country's building upgrading program to reduce earthquake risk may be of considerable interest to a large number of other countries. Techniques developed in another country for community involvement in flood protection may be directly usable in another.
The science of disaster mitigation is still at an early state of development and many techniques are being implemented or experimented with independently. The connection and transfer of experience from one location to another will help the implementation of effective mitigation techniques.
The rapidly developing science of hazard assessment; the earth sciences, meteorology, instrumentation advances and detection and prediction techniques are an important part of the international sharing of knowledge. Training, international scholarships, conference support, knowledge transfer in all its various forms is an important part of developing disaster mitigation expertise.
The role of DHA and other UN bodies in facilitating international exchange of expertise is summarized in Annex 1.
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