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How to make cities more resilient: a handbook for local government leaders

GDPC August 14, 2013

A handbook to provide “mayors, governors, councillors and other local government leaders with a generic framework for risk reduction and points to good practices and tools that are already being applied in different cities for that purpose.”

How to make cities more resilient: a handbook for local government leaders
http://www.unisdr.org/campaign/resilientcities/toolkit/handbook

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