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Reuters: Governments in Latin America and the Caribbean need to do more to reduce the adverse economic and social impacts of natural disasters and allocate more funding to better cope with and respond to catastrophes, according to the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB). Unless governments focus more on disaster risk reduction, the region faces potentially crippling economic and social costs from natural disasters, including an expected increase in climate change-related disasters, according ......
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Latin America needs to improve disaster risk management, bank says
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on October 6th, 2010
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