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Disaster Risk Reduction
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Definition
Preventing new and reducing existing disaster risk and managing residual risk, all of which contribute to strengthening resilience and therefore to the achievement of sustainable development.
Source
UNDRR (2016). Report of the open-ended intergovernmental expert working group on indicators and terminology relating to disaster risk reduction
Available at: https://www.undrr.org/terminology/disaster-risk-reduction
See also: Disaster Risk, (Residual) Risk, Resilience, Sustainable Development
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