No. 245 Resilience to Disaster Is No Small Measure

Author(s): Tim Prior, Florian Roth
Editor(s): Benno Zogg
Series Editor(s): Lisa Watanabe, Fabien Merz, Benno Zogg
Series: CSS Analyses in Security Policy
Issue: 245
Publisher(s): Center for Security Studies (CSS), ETH Zurich
Publication Year: 2019

Disaster risk reduction policies can mitigate the most harmful impacts of natural hazards. Lack of political support has often hamstrung effective prevention and preparedness, even though early action yields multiple benefits – to more than just the economy. A global conference in Geneva in May 2019, co-hosted by the UN and Switzerland, calls for political, financial and societal investments to reap the ‘resilience dividend’.

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Selected Targets of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction