Environmental guidance note for disaster risk reduction : healthy ecosystems for human security
2009
Ash, Neville |
Sudmeier-Rieux, Karen |
Investment in sustainable ecosystem management can offer cost-effective solutions to reducing community vulnerability to disasters. Healthy ecosystems are beneficial to local populations for the many benefits and products they provide, whilst acting as natural buffers to hazard events for flood abatement, slope stabilization, coastal protection and avalanche protection.