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The additional US$3 million to further reduce St. Lucia’s vulnerability to adverse natural disasters by supporting disaster preparedness and mitigation planning.

Disaster Risk Management Working Paper Series, no. 5.

This paper examines the ways in which natural resources management and environmental degradation affect natural hazard risk, and makes a preliminary assessment of the importance of such linkages and

Tourism and disaster management stakeholders across the Caribbean are collaborating to implement a master plan to protect the region's tourism industry against the impact of natural disasters....

ISDR system partner Caribbean Disaster Emergency Response Agency (CDERA) to participate in a panel on challenges for the Caribbean’s coastal tourism environment at the 10th annual Caribbean conference on sustainable tourism development...

This report provides a short overview on progress toward implementing the Hyogo Framework for Action highlighting:

1. National and regional context (risk);
2. A summary of the impact of initiatives on people and the economy, i.e. progress towards

Submitted in preparation for the World Conference on Disaster Reduction, 2005, Kobe, Hyogo, Japan.

The Hazard Mitigation Policy (HMP) has been designed to reinforce the institutional and popular hazards mitigation. The Natural Hazard Mitigation Plan (NHMP) details the HMP orientations with more specific measures.

The Policy advances an approach to disaster management that focuses on reducing risks – the risk of loss of life, economic disruption and damage to the environment and property, especially to those sections of the population who are most vulnerable.