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What is Disaster Risk Reduction?

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DISASTER RISK REDUCTION (DRR)
There is no such thing as a 'natural'
disaster, only natural hazards.
Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) aims to
reduce the damage caused by natural
hazards like earthquakes, floods, Watch videos on Disaster Resilience
droughts and cyclones, through an ethic and Sustainable Development!
of prevention.

Disasters often follow natural hazards. A

disaster's severity depends on how much
impact a hazard has on society and the
environment. The scale of the impact in turn depends on the choices we make for our lives and
for our environment. These choices relate to how we grow our food, where and how we build
our homes, what kind of government we have, how our financial system works and even what
we teach in schools. Each decision and action makes us more vulnerable to disasters - or more
resilient to them.
Our regional office is in Bangkok,
Disaster risk reduction is about choices.
Thailand.

Disaster risk reduction is the concept and practice of reducing disaster risks through
systematic efforts to analyse and reduce the causal factors of disasters. Reducing exposure to Latest UNDRR News
hazards, lessening vulnerability of people and property, wise management of land and the
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environment, and improving preparedness for adverse events are all examples of disaster risk
reduction. UNDRR chief meets
grandmother who
Disaster risk reduction is everyone's business. saved children from
"The more governments, UN
floods
agencies, organizations,
Disaster risk reduction includes disciplines like disaster
businesses and civil society
management, disaster mitigation and disaster preparedness,
understand risk and ASIA AND THE PACIFIC
but DRR is also part of sustainable development. In order for
vulnerability, the better UNDRR welcomes Viet
development activities to be sustainable they must also
equipped they will be to Nam’s new climate
reduce disaster risk. On the other hand, unsound
mitigate disasters when they change strategy
development policies will increase disaster risk - and
strike and save more lives"
disaster losses. Thus, DRR involves every part of society,
-- Ban Ki-moon, United Nations
every part of government, and every part of the professional
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and private sector.
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