Lanada, Maria Isabel B.

Building resilient communities: disaster readiness and risk reduction / Authors: Maria Isabel B. Lanada, Ma. Lourdes F. Melegrito and Diana J. Mendoza ; Project Director: Ronaldo B. Mactal - viii, 269 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm - The Padayon Series .

Unit I Understanding Disaster and Risk Reduction ? Chapter 1 Disaster, Hazards, Vulnerability, Capacity and Disaster Risk ? Chapter 2 Disaster and Disaster Risk in the Philippines ? Unit II Different Types of Hazards and Appropriate Responses ? Chapter 1 Hydrometeorological Hazards ? Chapter 2 Geological Hazards ? Chapter 3 Other Related Geological Hazards ? Chapter 4 Human- induced Hazards ? Unit III Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) and Community-Based Disaster Risk Reduction Management (CBDRRM) ? Chapter 1 Community-Based Disaster Risk Reduction Communities (CBDRRC)?Chapter 2 The State and the Citizen in Disaster Risk Reduction Management ? Chapter 3 Transforming at-Risk Communities to Disaster- Resilient Communities



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Natural disasters.
Emergency management.
Hazard mitigation.
Hazardous geographic environments --Risk assessment.
Disasters.
Natural disasters.

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