CHAPTER 11
Disaster Risk Management
What Have We Learned from the South Asian Experience?
Sanjeev Kumar Mahajan
Himachal Pradesh University, Shimla, India
Huong Ha
School of Business, Singapore University of Singapore, Singapore
R. Lalitha S. Fernando
Department of Public Administration, University of Sri Jayewardenepura, Nugegoda, Sri Lanka
Introduction
Natural disasters are global incidents that can significantly change South Asia’s economic development and people’s livelihoods by prolonging and intensifying poverty and resource constraints. There are many causes of natural disasters (US Environmental Protection Agency 2016), and there is no “one-shoe-fits” solution to prevent natural disasters. What we can do is to prepare for disasters ...
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