TY  - GEN
AB  - Since the incursion of COVID-19 pandemic, the region has been hit by multiple natural and biological disasters, while climate change has continued to warm the world, exacerbating the impacts. This has reshaped and expanded the Asia-Pacific riskscape. The Asia-Pacific Disaster Report 2021 addresses the complexity of these converging and cascading risks by analysing natural and biological hazards simultaneously. It presents the impacts of these risks on populations and infrastructure under current, moderate and worst-case climate change scenarios. The Report estimates that annual economic losses arising from such cascading risks could almost double under the worst-case climate change scenario. The Report emphasises that in an increasingly risky world all these hazards need to be considered not just as individual threats, but also in relation to the larger systems that they are likely to disrupt. Hence, with the help of advanced technologies, policymakers must consider more complex and varied future scenarios. Finally, the Report makes the case for more purposeful and systemic national action plans. It also highlights areas where subregional cooperation can be strengthened and serve as building blocks of a regional strategy for disaster, climate and health resilience. -- [back cover].
CY  - Bangkok :
DA  - 2021
DA  - 2021
ID  - 4043936
KW  - SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
KW  - ASIA AND THE PACIFIC
KW  - DISASTER PREPAREDNESS
KW  - CLIMATE CHANGE
KW  - DISASTER PREVENTION
L1  - https://digitallibrary.un.org/record/4043936/files/1402663_EN.pdf
L2  - https://digitallibrary.un.org/record/4043936/files/1402663_EN.pdf
L4  - https://digitallibrary.un.org/record/4043936/files/1402663_EN.pdf
LA  - eng
LK  - https://digitallibrary.un.org/record/4043936/files/1402663_EN.pdf
N2  - Since the incursion of COVID-19 pandemic, the region has been hit by multiple natural and biological disasters, while climate change has continued to warm the world, exacerbating the impacts. This has reshaped and expanded the Asia-Pacific riskscape. The Asia-Pacific Disaster Report 2021 addresses the complexity of these converging and cascading risks by analysing natural and biological hazards simultaneously. It presents the impacts of these risks on populations and infrastructure under current, moderate and worst-case climate change scenarios. The Report estimates that annual economic losses arising from such cascading risks could almost double under the worst-case climate change scenario. The Report emphasises that in an increasingly risky world all these hazards need to be considered not just as individual threats, but also in relation to the larger systems that they are likely to disrupt. Hence, with the help of advanced technologies, policymakers must consider more complex and varied future scenarios. Finally, the Report makes the case for more purposeful and systemic national action plans. It also highlights areas where subregional cooperation can be strengthened and serve as building blocks of a regional strategy for disaster, climate and health resilience. -- [back cover].
PB  - ESCAP,
PP  - Bangkok :
PY  - 2021
PY  - 2021
SN  - 9789211208283 (print)
SN  - 9789210057776 (e-ISBN)
SN  - 2411-8141
SN  - 2411-8176 (e-ISSN)
T1  - Asia-Pacific disaster report 2021 :resilience in a riskier world: managing systemic risks from biological and other natural hazards
TI  - Asia-Pacific disaster report 2021 :resilience in a riskier world: managing systemic risks from biological and other natural hazards
UR  - https://digitallibrary.un.org/record/4043936/files/1402663_EN.pdf
Y1  - 2021
ER  -