Disasters, resilience, and the ASEAN integration

Global Health Action 2014, 7: 25134, doi: 10.3402/gha.v7.25134:

This article provides a review of the efforts already initiated and continued in reducing the vulnerability of the Association of South-East Asian Nations (ASEAN) region to the risk of disasters in the context of sustainable development and in line with the Hyogo Framework for Action 2005–2015, from the instigation of the policy approach on disaster management by the Indian Ocean tsunami disaster in 2004 to the recent havoc caused by typhoon Haiyan in central Philippines.

The article calls for an ASEAN disaster body with a strong mandate from the member governments in the context of an integrated ASEAN to be the impetus toward innovative and novel approaches in disaster preparedness and prevention and in cooperating to protect civilians.

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