Natural Disasters and Sustainable Development: Understanding the Links between Development, Environment and Natural Disasters, Background Paper No. 5

Disaster Prevention and Management

ISSN: 0965-3562

Article publication date: 1 August 2002

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(2002), "Natural Disasters and Sustainable Development: Understanding the Links between Development, Environment and Natural Disasters, Background Paper No. 5", Disaster Prevention and Management, Vol. 11 No. 3, pp. 222-223. https://doi.org/10.1108/dpm.2002.11.3.222.3

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Emerald Group Publishing Limited


This paper explains the link between natural hazards and sustainable development and outlines the strategy the Secretariat will promote during the upcoming World Summit on Sustainable Development to be held in Johannesburg, South Africa, in September 2002. ISDR’s position is that disaster reduction is an underlying component in such global problems as poverty, climate change, desertification, drought, and gender‐based inequity. A better understanding of these connections – and public, official acknowledgment of them – is needed on a global scale if nations hope to arrest the rising toll of disaster losses or move toward the social, economic, and environmental stability that characterizes true sustainability.

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