Documenti di Didattica
Documenti di Professioni
Documenti di Cultura
Sálvano Briceño
Director, International Strategy for Disaster
Reduction (UN/ISDR)
www.unisdr.org
31 linked to CCA/UNDAF,
Regional
coordinated international and regional
Thematic
local capacities
Global
Annual sessions
Subsidiary Programme Advisory/Committee
Practical actions
Reducing vulnerabilities to natural hazards
Develop culture of prevention and resilience
Build institutions (policies, legislation, plans...) to actively contribute
to these goals
Identify risks (hazard & vulnerability assessments, mapping...) and
avoid high risk zones
Build hazard-resistant structures (schools, hospitals, houses...)
It’s all in the Hyogo Framework, please use it and “Words into Action”
also…
The way forward
Conclusions and way forward
• Intimate connections between poverty, environment,
climate and disasters require integrated approaches
• Capacity needs for future climate risks are mostly
similar to those for today’s risks, with some changes in
locations
• Urgent need to integrate risk management into
development sectors: health, education, environment,
science, culture, tourism, labour...
• Build alliances for action utilizing ISDR mechanisms:
media, governments, NGOs, academic and scientific
institutions, private sector...
IV The UN International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (ISDR)
International Strategy for Disaster Reduction
Launched in 2000 by UN General Assembly Resolution A/54/219 as
successor of the International Decade on Natural Disaster Reduction –IDNDR,
1990-1999:
Gilbert White
"Natural Hazards and the Third World-A Reply" 1978