Asia's Vulnerable Cities

Urban risk has become an increasingly important development issue. Effective risk management is often seen as a cost rather than an investment, but the costs of ignoring disaster risks on long-term growth and development are substantial. The default position for not making decisions on reducing urban disaster risk to is to accept high numbers of deaths and livelihood deprivation, prolonged economic decline and physical blight, and lost opportunities.

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