Floods, landslides, fires, hailstorms, drOught and other
hazards frequently affect the population of Nepal.
Every year natural disasters cause a large number of
deaths and property losses.
Efforts have been made to understand the cause
and effect of hazardous phenomena since 1970s
through the use of topographic, geologic, hydrologic,
climatologic, and land-use maps. Several large-scale
disasters of the late 1980s and 1990s, and the influence
of the International Decade for Natural Disaster
Reduction (IDNDR, 1990-1999) further emphasized
the need to address the problem of natural hazards
such as earthquakes, landslides and floods, with the
aim of reducing their potential impact, especially for
securing infrastructure that started being constructed all over the country in those years.
|
Publisher:
UNDP
,
(2009
) |
Type / Script:
Progress Report
in English
|
Keywords:
HUMAN POVERTY INDICES, MEASURING POVERTY, POVERTY IN NEPAL
|
Thematic Group:
UNDP
:
Social and Institutional Developoment
|
Thesaurus:
01.01.00
- Political Conditions, Institutions, Movements
|
Reference Link:
|
|
|
** This document has been:
1356
times viewed
29
times downloaded. Feeder:
SHOVA GIRI
, Editor:
PRAFFUL SHRESTHA
, Auditor:
View Document History
|
|
|
|
|