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- Resource ID
- 3bed26e4-32e8-11e6-93ab-040146164b01
- Title
- Country Profile - Timor Leste
- Date
- Sept. 1, 2011, 5 p.m., Publication
- Abstract
- The country risk profiles can support multiple applications that benefit both public and private stakeholders. In urban and development planning, planners can use the risk profile information to identify the best location of new development areas, evaluate how natural hazard may shape their development, and to assess whether the benefits of reducing the risk of natural events justify the costs of implementing the risk mitigating measures. In addition, the risk profiles can inform the development of disaster risk financing and insurance solutions and ex ante budget planning options to increase the financial resilience of the countries against natural disasters while maintaining their fiscal balance. The earthquake and tropical cyclone hazard models also provide critical information for building codes in terms of country-specific seismic and wind loads that buildings should be designed for to ensure adequate shelter to the population. The risk information can also help identifying existing vulnerable areas and communities located in or adjacent to these areas. This information can assist in supporting more targeted intervention in community-based disaster risk management and climate change adaptation actions. In the occurrence of a natural disaster the database also provides extremely useful baseline data and information for conducting timely and effective post-disaster damage assessments.
- Edition
- --
- Responsible
- andy
- Point of Contact
- Fraser
- sfraser@worldbank.org
- Purpose
- --
- Maintenance Frequency
- notPlanned
- Type
- not filled
- Restrictions
- None
- License
- None
- Language
- eng
- Temporal Extent
- Start
- --
- End
- --
- Supplemental Information
- strong_wind
- Data Quality
- --
- Extent
-
- Spatial Reference System Identifier
- EPSG:4326
- Keywords
- (10458, 45, 670, 48, 45, 'PCRAFI', 'pcrafi'), (10456, 138, 670, 48, 138, 'National Risk Profile', 'national-risk-profile'), (10457, 259, 670, 48, 259, 'East Timor', 'east-timor'), (10455, 321, 670, 48, 321, 'Timor-Leste', 'timor-leste_1')
- Category
- Geoscientific Information
- Regions
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Timor-Leste