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Dear Readers:
Fighting poverty, environmental degradation and the devastating consequences of disasters caused by vulnerability to natural hazards are objectives that can only be accomplished if they are undertaken in an integrated manner: promoting sustainable development policies at different levels, by diverse stakeholders, within a multi-sectoral approach.
In other words, the responsibility for meeting and implementing the Hyogo Framework for Action 2005-2015 and achieving the Millennium Development Goals does not lie just at national and international level: it needs involvement, participation and commitment by local authorities, local social and economic stakeholders and the community as a whole.
Although a sustainable community cannot stop tornados, hurricanes, earthquakes, floods and drought from happening, it must be able to reduce the physical damage to its territory and its inhabitants and thereby minimize the social, economic and environmental impact. This special issue of @local.glob is dedicated to local, national and international decision-makers who are aware of the fact that sustainability and disaster reduction are not an unreachable utopia: they can be achieved with commitment and responsibility. |
In this issue...
I - Disaster risk reduction and sustainable local development (pdf 710Kb)
- Disaster risk reduction: a call to action
Jaime Valdés
- Africa seeks to shift from disaster response to disaster prevention
Noroarisoa Rakotondrandria
- Recovery and reconstruction after the Great Hanshin-Awaji earthquake,
lessons learned from the experience of Kobe
Masahiko Murata
- Women, disaster risk reduction and sustainable development,
a gender perspective
Helena Molin Valdés
- Community disaster education and preparation, the work of National Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies
Xavier Castellanos M
- Disaster risk reduction: experiences from Asia and Central America
- Indonesia: Strengthening communities through post-disaster reconstruction
- Nicaragua: Local disaster prevention and mitigation strategies
II - Interview (pdf 815Kb)
- The role of local stakeholders in linking development to disaster reduction
Interview with Andrew Maskrey
Chief of the Disaster Reduction Unit of the UNDP Bureau for Crisis Prevention and Recovery
III - @global…@local (pdf 490Kb)
- Early warning systems and effective risk reduction.
The role of the United Nations Special Envoy for Tsunami Recovery, President W. J. Clinton
- United Cities and Local Governments
- Tsunami 2004 – Response to the disaster and commitment to reconstruction
- Local level risk management, concepts and experience in Central America
Allan Lavell
- Vulnerability of small and medium enterprises to disasters
Emilio Zevallos V.
- Italy: Education in environmental culture
Antonio Varaldo
- Bolivia: Disaster management as part of local planning
Nicole Clot
IV - Open section (pdf 392Kb)
- Was 2005 the year of natural disasters?
Theresa Braine
- Readers’ view: Guidelines for contributing
- Book reviews: Local Level Risk Management: Concept and Practice - Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
- International Organizations: Hyogo Framework for Action 2005-2015
- The Delnet Programme of the International Training Centre of the ILO: Description and objectives of the Delnet Programme
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