Essay On Disaster Risk Management

Introduction

The countries of East Asia and Pacific (EAP) suffer greatly from the adverse physical, gregarious and economic impacts of natural disasters. Some 82% of all lives lost and 85% of all those affected by disasters since 1997, live here.

Factors such as climate change, urbanization and environmental degradation have incremented the rigor and rate of natural disasters from roughly 120 events annually in the 1980s to about 500 events today. This trend is withal causing widespread ravagement of billions of dollars worth of assets annually in some of the world’s most densely populated areas.

Over the last 10 years, Disaster Risk Management (DRM) projects have shown convincingly how lives can be preserved and critical infrastructure spared utilizing incipient technologies, emergency and city orchestrating, building codes, climate change adaptation and jeopardize financing mechanisms.

With the most expeditious rate of urbanization in history, over one million urban migrants a month in EAP, reducing the impact of disasters has become intrinsic to fighting penuriousness. Indeed, development culls made today can influence future disasters and their impact.

Six of the ten most vulnerably susceptible countries to climate change events are in the East Asia region, and development in most of the Pacific island nations depends on adequate measures to reduce disaster losses caused by elevating sea levels and environmental downfall. Many aspects of climate change adaptation are disaster risk management and incipient initiatives are being launched with partners and regimes in the region to avail vulnerably susceptible nations meet this growing