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The FORIN Project – Understanding the Causes of Disasters

Related Topics

  • Risk Assessment
  • Social Impact of Disasters
  • Changing Risk, including Climate Change
  • Policy
  • Poverty and Shocks

Related Countries

  • Philippines
  • Taiwan, China
  • United States

Related Regions

  • East Asia and Pacific

This report presents three different case studies on disaster risk identification and stresses the importance of understanding the rooted and historical processes that lead to disaster risk by influencing the ways dynamic processes or risk drivers develop, such as demographic change, poverty and inequality, weak governance structures, inadequate risk policies, Case studies are from Taiwan, the Philippines and the United States.

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Organizations

  • Integrated Research on Disaster Risk (IRDR)
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