Disaster Risk Reduction

Disaster risk reduction is the ultimate objective of the alternative perspective. Sustainable risk reduction involves strategies that could reduce people's vulnerability and enhance their capacities to make them sustain shocks created by hazards. this can be understood by a simple equation:

Risk (Disaster) = Vulnerability (V)  x Hazards (H)

                                             Capacity (C)

or                        R= V x H
                                    C

According to this equation the value of ‘R’ or risk of disaster will be reduced if the value of ‘V’ or vulnerability is reduced and that of ‘C’ or capacity is increased.

To reduce the risk of disasters, a combination of strategies is required. The PAR and SLF models and human development approach provide useful building blocks of this strategy. It is important to keep in sight that effort to reduce the disaster risk directly contribute stainable human and environmental development. Disaster risk reduction also has direct linkages with the attainment of Millennium Development Goals.