About the product
Reducing Disaster Risk: A Challenge for Development looks at disasters through a “human development”lens. This global Report aims to explain the linkages between development and disaster. It introduces a pioneering Disaster Risk Index (DRI) that measures the relative vulnerability of countries to three key natural hazards - earthquakes, tropical cyclones and floods. It identifies the development factors that contribute to risk, and shows in quantitative terms, just how the effects of disasters can be either reduced or exacerbated by policy choices.
