- Title
- A comprehensive national hazard assessment and mapping in Timor Leste
- Abstract
- Realizing the gap in Timor-Leste’s national and local disaster risk management systems, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the National Disaster Management Directorate (NDMD) of the Government of Timor-Leste have launched a project entitled “Strengthening Disaster Risk Management in Timor-Leste” to be implemented between 2011 and 2013. The overall objective of the project is to develop disaster risk management capacity at the national and district levels. The key priority defined under the scope of this project is to undertake a national multi-hazard vulnerability and risk assessment to understand the disaster risk in Timor-Leste.
- Publication Date
- Oct. 31, 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
- Timor-Leste
- 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
- Language
- English
- Supplemental Information
- river_flood, drought, tsunami, landslide,, earthquake
- Name
- Stu Fraser (stu)
- sfraser@worldbank.org
- Position
- Senior Disaster RIsk Management Specialist
- Organization
- World Bank
- Location
- Voice
- Fax
- Link Online
- /documents/811
- Metadata Page
- /documents/811/metadata_detail
- Online Link
- /documents/811/download
- Name
- Andy (andy)
- Position
- Organization
- Location
- Voice
- Fax