Table of Contents:
  • Volume I. Living with risk: focus on disaster risk reduction
  • Risk awareness and assessment
  • Policy and commitment: the foundation of disaster risk reduction
  • Building understanding: development of knowledge and information sharing
  • A selection of disaster reduction applications
  • Future challenges: a common vision for disaster risk reduction.
  • Volume II. Annexes. Terminology: basic terms of disaster risk reduction
  • Directory of international, regional, national and specialized organizations
  • United Nations system: an outline of activities dedicated to disaster risk reduction
  • Selected international development agendas and commitments relevant to disaster risk reduction
  • Extracts from the Johannesburg Plan of Implementation (JPoI) of the World Summit on Sustainable Development
  • References.