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- Permanent Link:
- http://dpanther.fiu.edu/dpService/dpPurlService/purl/FI13042641/00001
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- Summary:
- This publication focuses on the critical role of risk analysis in disaster risk management (DRM) for sustainable development. It is a guideline on the integration of risk analysis into development projects and programs, as well as reconstruction planning after disaster. The document begins with a concern that limited resources are increasingly being diverted away from development and towards responding to a growing number of disasters of ever increasing scale and magnitude. It identifies climate change and unregulated urbanization as two causes central to rising risks around the world. The German Agency for Technical Cooperation (GTZ) is particularly focused on reducing the demand for aid following disaster principally by working with governments in the developing world to prevent disasters and to strengthen their preparedness. With the growing scarcity of resources for responding to disasters, it is critical that emergency aid moves impacted societies back towards sustainable development, and that investments in disaster risk management (DRM) reduce vulnerabilities. Critical to achieving these objectives is the concept of development-oriented aid (DEA), which links emergency aid to rehabilitation and reconstruction, disaster risk management and crisis prevention, and most importantly, development. An important tool for DEA and associated DRM is risk analysis, a “method of determining the quantitative or qualitative degree of risk.” Risk analysis serves as a necessary component of developing effective and efficient strategies for risk reduction and sustainable development. Rather than viewing disaster as a natural process, increasingly it is understood that it is society and its various modes of production and living, its models of development, that serve as the principle variables increasing risk and the likelihood of disaster. Therefore, these variables are increasingly being analyzed and taken into account within various risk reduction strategies. Risk analysis, the publication points out, involves identifying the linkages between vulnerabilities and hazards, and the effects on communities and their assets that can potentially emanate from such linkages. Risk analysis is an ongoing process that adjusts to shifting vulnerabilities, hazards and, as a result, risks. In terms of methods to conduct risk analysis, the publication identifies three: hazard maps, risk zone maps, and risk maps.
- Subject:
- General Risk Management
- Citation/Reference:
- Kohler, A., Julich, S., Bloemertz, L. (2004). Risk analysis: a basis for disaster risk management. Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ).
Record Information
- Source Institution:
- Florida International University
- Rights Management:
- Refer to main document/publisher for use rights.
- Resource Identifier:
- FI13042641
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