Disaster mitigation.

Pt 1: Introduction to mitigation concepts: The sanitary revolution: a paradigm for disaster mitigation -- Know your enemy: hazards and their effects -- Saving life and reducing economic disruption -- Targeting mitigation where it has most effect -- Vulnerability -- Specific hazards and mitigation -- Pt 2: Actions to reduce risk -- Reducing hazard vs reducing vulnerability -- Tools, powers and budgets -- Community-based mitigation -- The menu of mitigation actions -- Pt 3: Mitigation strategies -- Aims and methods -- Economics -- Practicality -- Opportunities for mitigation: post-disaster implementation -- Empowerment and community-based mitigation -- Pt 4: Implementing organizations -- Disaster mitigation in UNDP country programming -- Building up skills and institutions -- Regional context: a problem shared -- International exchange of expertise -- Supporting decision-making: external specialists -- Knowledge dissemination -- International decade for natural disaster reduction -- Initial phases of the country programming exercise