UNDRR & ECLAC Report: The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic - an opportunity for a systemic approach to disaster risk for the Caribbean
Source
United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction – Regional Office for the Americas and the Caribbean
Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean
The COVID-19 pandemic demonstrates the urgent need for new conceptual and analytical approaches to improve understanding and management of risk dynamics and complex, interconnected risk drivers with cascading effects. Progress will only be accelerated towards risk-informed sustainable development and regeneration by strengthening the understanding of system risk and incorporating systems-based approaches in the design of policies and investments across all sectors, geographies and scales. Improved risk governance is essential. There is an opportunity to build on progress to date.
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Hazards
Epidemic and Pandemic
Themes
Climate change
Governance
Recovery
Risk identification and assessment
Small Island Developing States (SIDS)
Country and region
Panama
Publication Year
2021