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Part two: Guidelines for incorporating natural hazard considerations into development planning and project formulation

Susceptibility to vulnerability reduction
Hazard mitigation strategies for development planning
Hazard mitigation strategies for project formulation
Strategies for specific hazards
Strategies for selected economic sectors
Tools and techniques for natural hazard assessmen
Strategies for development assistance agencies10/
Appendix A - Status of geologic hazards in Latin America and the Caribbean
The Organization of American States

As has been said, it is the fundamental premise of this document that natural hazards information should be included routinely in development planning and investment project preparation, and that it makes financial and economic sense to build appropriate mitigation measures into investment projects themselves. These efforts, of course, consume financial and technical resources. Therefore, investment project preparation must include a method of estimating the costs and benefits of investing in mitigation measures in order to compare the value of losses that might be caused by natural hazards with the costs of their mitigation. The earlier calculations are made, the better.

The guidelines set forth here synthesize the experience of the OAS in assisting member states to build hazard mitigation measures into development planning and project formulation. The guidelines are divided into the following components:

- Factors that influence susceptibility to vulnerability reduction
- Hazard mitigation strategies for development planning
- Hazard mitigation strategies for investment project formulation
- Strategies for specific hazards
- Strategies for selected economic sectors
- Tools and techniques for natural hazard assessment
- Strategies for development assistance agencies

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