Implementation of disaster risk reduction measures in togo 32. Summary of global disaster risk reduction and management. Latest global repolts on disaster risk trends reveal that economic loss risk continues to increase across all regions and seriously threatens the economies of lowincome countries. Main natural disaster risk reduction policies and strategies in togo 18 4. Twenty five years of international commitments to disaster risk reduction. Disaster risk is the potential loss expressed in lives, health status, livelihoods, assets and services, which could occur to a particular community or a society due to the impact of a natural hazard. In launching the global assessment report on disaster risk reduction, titled revealing risk, redefining development, andrew maskrey, unisdr, highlighted evidence that. Revealing risk, redefining development geneva, 2011 3 emdat, the international database cred, available at. The approach has been initially implemented in the developing world by ngos followed by international organizations like the international federations of red cross and red crescent.
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