Hyogo Framework for Action: a tool for strategic flood risk management implemented by Brazil and Portugal

Authors

  • Camila Pinheiro Pozzer
  • Simone Cynamon Cohen
  • Francisco da Silva Costa

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14195/1647-7723_21_5

Keywords:

Prevention, disasters, instrument, risk, flood.

Abstract

Given the deterioration and increased disaster caused by adverse events, the governments of 168 countries pledged to take measures to reduce disaster risk, adopting the Hyogo Framework for Action in 2005. The Hyogo Framework for Action is the most important instrument for the implementation of disaster risk reduction, adopted by member countries in the United Nations.

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Published

2014-08-26

Issue

No. 21 (2014): Risk territories: processes, vulnerabilities and security

Section

Articles

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