We live in a world which continues to experience dramatic suffering
and loss of life due to natural hazard. The disaster paradigm has
accelerated efforts towards resilience building, particularly since
the adoption of the Hyogo Framework for Action (HFA), a ten year
plan to build the resilience of nations and communities to
disasters Urban areas present complexity and interconnectivity of
various elements, and this needs to be considered when building the
resilience of such areas to disasters. To address urban risks,
local level disaster risk reduction (DRR) is of fundamental
importance, not only because it is closer to the citizens, but
because it is the repository of regulatory governance functions and
local knowledge The need to scale up the capacity of DRR at the
local government level to build urban resilience is a key incentive
for this study. With particular reference to the example of Makati
City in the Philippines, this book analyses a local DRR approach
with reference to the HFA, applies a micro-level resilience
assessment and discusses an effective model for enhancing local DRR
capacity in the future.
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