Resources


Brief Description

United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction

URL: http://www.unisdr.org/

Parties

parties

Objective

The ISDR aims at building disaster resilient communities by promoting increased awareness of the importance of disaster reduction as an integral component of sustainable development, with the goal of reducing human, social, economic and environmental losses due to natural hazards and related technological and environmental disasters.

Source: [http://www.unisdr.org/eng/about_isdr/isdr-mission-objectives-eng.htm ISDR Mission and Objectives (UN-ISDR website)

Time Window

Started: 1989, with the UN General Assembly resolution 44/236 of 22 December 1989, calling for an International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction. Further resolutions can be accessed at General Assembly Resolutions and Decisions on ISDR (UN-ISDR website)
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