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Disaster risk reduction and resilience building of urban poor communities

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Geospatial science and technology for development : with a focus on urban development, landadministration and disaster risk management

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The Economic and Fiscal Burdens of Disasters in the Pacific

Noy, Ilan - 2017

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Special feature on regional sustainability : analysis in a spatial and regional context with broad perspectives on the risk of global warming, natural disasters, and emerging issue...

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Building Resilience : Integrating Climate and Disaster Risk into Development, The World Bank Group Experience

World Bank - 2014

This report presents the World Bank Group's experience in climate and disaster resilient development and contends that it is essential to eliminate extreme poverty and achieve shared prosperity by 2030. The report argues for closer collaboration between the climate resilience and disaster risk...

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