Disaster resilience in Asia a special supplement of Asia journey to prosperity policy, market, and technology over 50 years. - Asian Development Bank (Manila,Philippines Asian Development Bank, 2021)
Asia and the Pacific has seen tremendous economic and social progress since the 1960s. Yet, the region remains vulnerable to natural hazards and to rising disaster risk that threatens its hard won gains. The coronavirus disease COVID 19 pandemic has illustrated how high the human and economic costs of disasters can be. This supplement focuses on disasters triggered by natural hazards, explores the effects of COVID 19 and policy responses, and highlights lessons from across the region.
Keywords: Natural disasters -- Economic aspects -- Asia; Disaster relief -- Asia; Electronic books