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Disaster risk reduction

Disaster risk reduction is aimed at preventing new and reducing existing disaster risk and managing residual risk, all of which contribute to strengthening resilience and therefore to the achievement of sustainable development.

Glossary Source

UNDRR 2016
( UNDRR - Report of the open-ended intergovernmental expert working group on indicators and terminology relating to disaster risk reduction )
https://www.undrr.org/terminology