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Institutional and Organizational Framework for a Disaster Risk Management

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There are a multitude of organizations and mechanisms worldwide targeted at social and human development. The key word for all the different approaches is “sustainability.” Although there are many different concepts, strategies, and instruments in practice in development policy, they all have the same aim, “to reach sustainable human development.”

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Ranke, U. (2016). Institutional and Organizational Framework for a Disaster Risk Management. In: Natural Disaster Risk Management. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-20675-2_4

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