Vulnerability reduction in development for human settlements.

"Training material for disaster reduction :introduction, for use with all training modules"

Includes bibliographical references

Development and disasters -- Development planning for disaster reduction -- Vulnerability -- Vulnerability management in development -- Sequentiality and recurrence; relief and development -- The reality of the relief machine -- Some other responses for integration -- Development, vulnerability and sustainability

Addresses the concern that vulnerability of populations and of population groups is the root cause of disasters but that moreover, because there has been in the past an institutional and administrative separation of "disaster management" from "development", attention to vulnerability has been neglected and impeded. Vulnerability itself could have been made worse. Although, on the one hand, there has been an assumption that development is necessary before the impact of disasters can be reduced, on the other, development projects themselves have automatically been divorced from natural disasters. What this paper seeks to emphasise is that conventional development (ie economic growth) on its own, is not a requirement for disaster reduction to commence, but that any and all development activity must be addressed and tailored to vulnerability reduction within national and local contexts and capacities and thus can be made to be effective towards the objective of disaster reduction