Integrating disaster prevention into development planning

This strategy features in the framework of Agenda 21 as formulated at UNCED (Rio de Janeiro, 1992), now coordinated by the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development and implemented through national and local authorities.

1. Strengthening
2. Making safer cities
3. Improving human settlements
4. Adopting planning approaches serving multiple goals
5. Addressing acute debt-servicing problems
6. Integrating-Fragmenting

1. Redirecting development to less hazard prone areas
2. Preparing guidelines on the design of potentially hazardous activities
3. Preparing disaster contingency plans for settlements
4. Preparing contingency reconstruction plans
5. Assessing multi-hazard risks of settlements

1. Reducing impact of natural disasters

1. Using legal measures to ensure disaster-sensitive development
2. Supporting cooperation on disaster mitigation among experts
3. Establishing environmental regulatory controls
4. Assessing costs to strengthen settlements planning in disaster-prone areas

1. Developing disaster management strategies for biodiversity conservation

1. Agenda 21
2. Healthy Cities around the world
3. Integrating Hazard Mitigation into Local Planning
4. Disaster risk reduction
5. Emergency management
6. Disaster prevention for sustainable development : economic and policy issues