Disaster Risk Management For Coastal Tourism Destinations - DTIE
Disaster Risk Management For Coastal Tourism Destinations - DTIE
Disaster Risk Management For Coastal Tourism Destinations - DTIE
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The sustainability of coastal tourism<br />
destinations depends partly on their<br />
ability to adapt planning and management<br />
practices to the impacts of<br />
climate change and also to increase<br />
their ability to effectively manage<br />
natural disasters.<br />
<br />
climate change will exacerbate<br />
weather-related disasters that will<br />
be not only more frequent but also<br />
more powerful and consequently<br />
will put coastal tourism destinations<br />
in an almost constant state of alert.<br />
Experience has shown, time and<br />
again, that it is local people who<br />
are best placed to save lives and to<br />
coordinate the return to normality.<br />
www.unep.org<br />
United Nations Environment Programme<br />
P.O. Box 30552 Nairobi, Kenya<br />
Tel.: ++254-(0)20-62 1234<br />
Fax: ++254-(0)20-62 3927<br />
E-mail: cpiinfo@unep.org<br />
<strong>For</strong> more information, contact:<br />
UNEP <strong>DTIE</strong><br />
Sustainable Consumption<br />
and Production branch<br />
15 rue de Milan<br />
75441 Paris CEDEX 09<br />
France<br />
Tel: +33 1 4437 1450<br />
Fax: +33 1 4437 1474<br />
E-mail: uneptie@unep.fr<br />
www.unep.fr/scp<br />
It is the degree to which people are<br />
prepared for disasters that determines<br />
how vulnerable or resilient<br />
their community will be.<br />
The handbook provides disaster<br />
managers, local and municipal and<br />
community planners, as well as<br />
other stakeholders in the tourism<br />
sector with a practical guidance on<br />
how to better prepare for disasters<br />
in coastal destinations.<br />
ISBN: 978 92 907 2922 2<br />
DTI/1048/PA
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