The United Nations General Assembly designated the 1990s as the International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction (IDNDR).
Its basic objective was to decrease the loss of life, property destruction and social and economic disruption caused by natural disasters, such as earthquakes, tsunamis, floods, landslides, volcanic eruptions, droughts, locust infestations, and other disasters of natural origin.
History
On December 22, 1989, the United Nations General Assembly passed Resolution 44/236, officially launching The International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction.
From 1990 to 1999, the effort was intended to reduce, through concerted international action, especially in developing countries, loss of life, property damage and social and economic disruption caused by natural disasters.2 To support the decade's activities, a Secretariat was established at the United Nations Office in Geneva, in close association with UNDRO.
See also
External links
- UNISDR Regional Office for the Americas
- PreventionWeb
- ProVention Consortium at the Library of Congress Web Archives (archived 2001-11-16)
- International Recovery Platform
- Disaster Reduction for Children & Youth website
- HFA Pedia
- stopdisastersgame.org
References
UN General Assembly, Resolution 44/236, International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction, A/Res/44/236 (March 1990), https://digitallibrary.un.org/record/82536. Retrieved 2023-06-22. /wiki/United_Nations_General_Assembly ↩
"About the International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction" (PDF). shf-lhb.org. https://www.shf-lhb.org/articles/lhb/pdf/1998/02/lhb1998029.pdf ↩