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Strong, Safe, and Resilient: A Strategic Policy Guide for Disaster Risk Management in East Asia and the Pacific
Author(s): Abhas K. Jha (Editor), Zuzana Stanton-Geddes
- Publisher: World Bank Publications
- Publication Date: 30 Mar. 2013
- Edition: Illustrated
- Language: English
- Print length: 202 pages
- ISBN-10: 0821398059
- ISBN-13: 9780821398050
Book Description
Disaster risk management is essential in the fight against poverty. Disasters can, in an instant, wipe out decades of hard-fought poverty reduction and development gains and push countless households into poverty. Disasters disproportionally affect the poor: Vulnerable and marginalized groups, including women, children, the elderly, and people with disabilities, are at particular risk.
