GAR - Global assessment report on disaster risk reduction : 2019

The Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction (GAR) is the flagship report of the United Nations on worldwide efforts to reduce disaster risk. The GAR is published biennially by the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR), and is the product of the contributions of nations, public and private risk-related science and research, amongst others. The GAR contributes to achieving the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development through monitoring risk patterns and trends, as well as progress in disaster risk reduction, while providing strategic policy guidance to countries and the international community. The GAR aims to focus international attention on the issue of risk and encourage political and economic support for risk reduction.
GAR19 - A guided tour Chapter 1: How we got to now -- Chapter 2: Systemic risks, the Sendai Framework and the 2030 Agenda -- Part 1: The Sendai Framework’s broadened view of the world’s risk -- Chapter 3: Risk -- Chapter 4: Opportunities and enablers of change -- Chapter 5: Challenges to change -- Chapter 6: Special section on drought -- Part 2: Implementation of the Sendai Framework and Disaster Risk-informed Sustainable Development -- Chapter 7: Risk reduction across the 2030 Agenda -- Chapter 8: Progress in achieving the global targets of the Sendai Framework -- Chapter 9: Review of efforts made by Member States to implement the Sendai Framework -- Part 3: Creating the national and local conditions to manage risk -- Chapter 10: Regional support and national enabling environments for integrated risk reduction -- Chapter 11: National and local disaster risk reduction strategies and plans -- Chapter 12: Disaster risk reduction integrated in development planning and budgeting -- Chapter 13: Integration between disaster risk reduction and national climate change adaptation strategies and plans -- Chapter 14: Local disaster risk reduction strategies and plans in urban areas -- Chapter 15: Disaster risk reduction strategies in fragile and complex risk contexts.

469 p. : ill., charts, graphs, maps, tables

Includes bibliographical references (p. 436-469).
Available online (viewed 28 Aug. 2019).

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