Browsing Journals by Subject "Hyogo Framework for Action"
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Disaster event: Window of opportunity to implement global disaster policies?
(AOSIS OpenJournals, 2013)Disasters have been predominantly construed as destructive events causing loss of lives, livelihoods and hard-won development. Much less attention has been paid to the constructive nature of disasters as creating potential ... -
Disaster risk reduction in the Omusati and Oshana regions of Namibia
(AOSIS OpenJournals, 2013)Namibia often experiences heavy rains in the north and north-eastern parts of the country, which results in severe flooding. For this reason, the country has endorsed the Hyogo Framework for Action (HFA) which seeks to ... -
Disasters in ‘development’ contexts: contradictions and options for a preventive approach
(AOSIS OpenJournals, 2013)The relations of development and disaster offer a starting point for an overview of disaster risk reduction (DRR) in African contexts. A social vulnerability approach is adopted with its goal of improving conditions for ... -
The Hyogo framework for action and its implications for disaster management and reduction in Africa
(AOSIS OpenJournals, 2010)At the World Conference on Disaster Reduction, Hyogo, Japan, in January 2005, the international community adopted a 10-year plan to make the world safer from disasters. The resultant Hyogo Framework for Action is the global ... -
Views from the frontline: a critical assessment of local risk governance in South Africa
(AOSIS OpenJournals, 2013)In 2005 the United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction introduced the ‘Hyogo Framework for Action’ (HFA) aimed at mainstreaming disaster risk reduction. Subsequently, the ‘Global Network for Disaster ...
