Title: Did the Indian Ocean tsunami trigger a shift towards disaster risk reduction?
Abstract: The earthquake and tsunami disaster of 26 December 2004 presents many extremes: the devastation was without precedent for a disaster of this type, covering a large geographical area. The level of the response was also without precedent. Another unusual development was the rapid recognition that many lives could have been saved had disaster risk reduction been more aggressively carried out in the region prior to the disaster. This chapter argues that this recognition provided a key opportunity to build more systematically on existing humanitarian, environment, and development commitments and helped develop more systematic disaster risk reduction capabilities in the region and the rest of the world.
Publication Year: 2021
Publication Date: 2021-12-23
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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