Implementing the International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction

Download or read book Implementing the International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction written by Frank Press and published by . This book was released on 2010-01 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Report to the Secretary-General of the U.N. by the international ad hoc Group of Experts for the International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction (IDNDR). Contents: Text of the Tokyo Declaration on the IDNDR, 11 April 1989; (1) Intro.: Rationale; An Integrated Approach to Disaster Mgmt.; (2) Problems and Opportunities: Natural Disasters; Impediments to Disaster Reduction; The Decade as an Opportunity to Link Ongoing Activities and to Apply Scientific and Tech. Breakthroughs; (3) Thrusts of the Decade; (4) Participants in the IDNDR; (5) Organizational Criteria and Concepts. Append.: (A) U.N. General Assembly Resolutions 42/169 and 43/1; (B) Additional Illustrative Projects for the Decade; (C) Regional Hazards and Needs.