Encyclopaedia of Hazard Management and Emergency Humanitarian Assistance

This encyclopedia is unique in the sense that it covers all applied aspects of disaster reduction and mitigation, hazard management and emergency humanitarian assistance. its main focus lies on the concepts and guidelines for hazard assessment and vulnerability analysis; major global disasters and their impacts; "UN International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction", its declarations, and global forum of NGOs on the said subject area; humanitarian emergence assistance and code of conduct for d