Developing a National Risk Profile of Lao PDR: Part 2: Exposure, Vulnerability and Risk Assessment

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Title: Developing a National Risk Profile of Lao PDR: Part 2: Exposure, Vulnerability …
Abstract: Lao PDR has witnessed several major natural disasters in the last two centuries. These hazard events pose a severe threat to national development processes. The national government is committed to take the necessary measures to avert these threats impacting on the country’s development process. In line with this commitment, the Government of Lao PDR’s National Disaster Management Office (NDMO) initiated the process of developing a national hazard and risk profile for the country. The project objectives included mapping out all hazard-prone areas based on historic disaster events, identifying and assessing the exposure, vulnerability and risk of people, property, critical facilities, infrastructure and economic activities to those hazards prone areas and creating preliminary national multi-hazard profiles in terms of hazards and sectors to identify priorities for national disaster risk reduction (DRR) strategies.

Publication Date: Nov. 1, 2010, 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: Lao People's Democratic Republic
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DOI: None
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