Contingency Plan for Floods nd Landslides

The frequency, intensity and impact of natural hazard events are growing and causing more disasters with negative impacts on humans, economy and environment. Many areas in the world are prone to one or several natural hazards. Hazard events result in disasters when risk factors such as hazard, vulnerability and inadequate capacity (coping capacities) overlaps in space and time. Avoiding or reducing the impact of disasters can be reached by reducing the Disaster risks. Consequently, focusing on Disaster Risk Reduction is an issue at stake worldwide (UNISDR, 2005)