The last straw : integrating natural disaster mitigation with environmental management (English)

This paper examines the ways in which natural resources management and environmental degradation affect natural hazard risk, and makes a preliminary assessment of the importance of such linkages and the extent of their incorporation into disaster mitigation strategies and activities. Our analysis is based upon case studies in three countries in the Caribbean: Dominica, the Dominican Republic and St. Lucia, which are all highly vulnerable to natural...

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van Aalst, Maarten;

Burton, Ian;
Document Date
2002/07/31
Document Type
Working Paper (Numbered Series)
Report Number
26281
Volume No
1
Total Volume(s)
1
Country
Latin America, Caribbean, World,
Region
Other, Latin America and Caribbean,
Disclosure Date
2010/07/01
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The last straw : integrating natural disaster mitigation with environmental management
Keywords
natural hazard

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van Aalst, Maarten; Burton, Ian.

The last straw : integrating natural disaster mitigation with environmental management (English). Disaster Risk Management Working Paper series ; no. 5 Washington, D.C. : The World Bank. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/279041468776795940

The last straw : integrating natural disaster mitigation with environmental management (English)

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