[S38] Enabling sustainable urban development with attaining the benefit and welfare while adequately controling the disaster risk
| Organizer | Green Goals Initiative |
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- Disaster Risk Reduction
- Urban Development
- Sustainable Development
Outline
In the process of development, there is often an increase not only in economic benefits and welfare, which are the primary objectives, but also in negative factors such as disaster risks and environmental degradation. Particularly, areas with inherently high hazard levels, such as floodplains, are often developed attracted the natural resource accessibility and economic efficiency, embedding disaster risks into urban development over the medium to long term. This trend is especially pronounced in developing countries and nations with high disaster risk reduction (DRR) needs, which are experiencing rapid economic development. To achieve sustainable development, it is essential to expand investments in DRR in advance. At the same time, it is crucial to suppress disaster-risk-increasing development without significantly compromising economic benefits or welfare. Therefore, this session will discuss not only effective approaches to pre-disaster DRR investment projects but also the potential policies to curb disaster-risk-increasing development.
