Asia science technology status for disaster risk reduction
This publication explores the contributions of science and technology in Asia. The first part evaluates the advancement of the science and technology in disaster risk reduction in 11 countries.
The second part of the report features 28 case studies and good practices on applying science and technology in different field of disaster risk reduction as follow:
- Country cases (24): Bhutan (1), China (1), India (4), Indonesia (2), Iran (3), Japan (4), Mongolia (2), Myanmar (1), Malaysia (2), Nepal (1), Pakistan (1), Philippines (1) and Thailand (1)
- Cross cutting issues (4): Cross boundary flood, Digital radio, Resilient housing and schools and River basin ecosystem
The status report and case studies illustrate that the strong partnership of science technology groups with other stakeholders in Asia. However, there is a need to strengthen this partnership with a clearer direction and strategy for implementation.
This document is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commerical-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence.
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Themes
Climate change
Community-based DRR
Early warning
Education and school safety
Data and information management
Risk identification and assessment
Governance
Water
Disaster risk management
Inclusion
Food security and agriculture
Science and technology
Country and region
Bangladesh
China
India
Indonesia
Iran, Islamic Rep of
Japan
Malaysia
Myanmar
Nepal
Pakistan
Philippines
Sri Lanka
Viet Nam
Number of pages
96 p.
Publication year
2016