Community-based disaster risk reduction and management concept paper

• Main Author: Lanada, Maria Isabel B.
• Format: text
• Published: Animo Repository 2013
• Subjects: Emergency management—Law and legislation—Philippines; Emergency management—Philippines; Disasters—Philippines; Disaster relief—Philippines; Disaster Law; Social and Behavioral Sciences
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/faculty_research/7896
• Institution: De La Salle University

The Philippines is one of the countries in the world that is prone to natural hazards. The country continues to become vulnerable to various forms of natural hazards even though disaster risk reduction and management laws are already in place. Annually, the country experiences 20 typhoons, that resu...