- Title
- Developing a National Risk Profile for the Lebanon
- Abstract
- This report is the third in a series of report funded by the UNDP and SDC, and carried out by the author, for the Presidency of the Council of Ministers in Lebanon. The first report provided a summary and discussion on disaster risk losses in Lebanon. The second report provided an identification of Lebanon’s national critical infrastructure followed by a discussion on the current state of resilience of Lebanon’s national critical infrastructure. This report provides an analysis of the risk profile in Lebanon including hazard, exposure and vulnerability mapping. The remaining report will present a draft national strategy for Disaster Risk Reduction within Lebanon, for discussion by various stakeholders. Where applicable, each of these reports will also provide a discussion on the interaction of the main global risk drivers (environmental degradation, rapid urbanization, poor governance and poverty) with the topic under consideration (i.e. disaster losses, infrastructure, hazards, exposure, vulnerability, risks and strategies for risk reduction). As various low and middle income third-world countries continue to strive to meet development goals, it becomes crucial to comprehend the multi-faceted manner in which disaster risk interacts with the development process. Indeed, on the one hand, disaster risk is being driven by various manifestations of unchecked development including environmental degradation, rapid urbanization and poverty which is leading to an increase in the frequency and intensity of disaster risk. Disaster risk reduction may be achieved most effectively through integrating DRR efforts in development planning and private investment planning. However, a prerequisite to this integration is the availability of a national risk profile for the country, showing spatial variability of hazards, exposure and vulnerabilities. Therefore, it is important to collate and analyse data related to hazards, exposure and vulnerabilities, corresponding to the main hazards within the country (earthquakes, tsunamis, forest fires, storms and floods).
- Publication Date
- Oct. 2, 2012, 5 p.m.
- Category
- Geoscientific Information
- information pertaining to earth sciences. Examples: geophysical features and processes, geology, minerals, sciences dealing with the composition, structure and origin of the earth s rocks, risks of earthquakes, volcanic activity, landslides, gravity information, soils, permafrost, hydrogeology, erosion
- Regions
- Lebanon
- Approved
- No
- Published
- Yes
- Featured
- No
- DOI
- None
- Attribution
- None
- Name
- Andy (andy)
- Position
- Organization
- Location
- Voice
- Fax
- Identification Image
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- Spatial Extent
- ---
- Projection System
- EPSG:4326
- Extension x0
- None
- Extension x1
- None
- Extension y0
- None
- Extension y1
- None
- Maintenance Frequency
- There Are No Plans To Update The Data
- Language
- English
- Supplemental Information
- tsunami, earthquake
- Name
- Stu Fraser (stu)
- sfraser@worldbank.org
- Position
- Senior Disaster RIsk Management Specialist
- Organization
- World Bank
- Location
- Voice
- Fax
- Link Online
- /documents/803
- Metadata Page
- /documents/803/metadata_detail
- Online Link
- /documents/803/download
- Name
- Andy (andy)
- Position
- Organization
- Location
- Voice
- Fax