Agenda 21 (United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, 1992)
Agenda 21 (United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, 1992) : "Agenda 21 was adopted by more than 178 Governments at the popularly named Earth Summit held in Rio de Janerio, Brazil, in June 1992. As the whole of Agenda 21 is about the linkages between environment and development it is not surprising that there are many relevant sections in the document relating to disaster management: from addressing the uncertainties of climatic change (Chapter 9), to specific actions to manage fragile environments (i.e. Chapter 13 on Mountains, which includes an objective, paragraph 13.5, to generate information to establish databases and information systems to facilitate an evaluation of environmental risks and natural disasters in mountain ecosystems). Overall the most relevant chapter is the one on Promoting Sustainable Human Settlement Development (Chapter 7) which refers to developing a "culture of safety" in all countries, especially those that are disaster-prone (paragraph 7.60). Specific activities include, for example,: 7.29. All countries should consider, as appropriate, undertaking a comprehensive national inventory of their land resources in order to establish a land information system in which land resources will be classified according to their most appropriate uses and environmentally fragile or disasterprone areas will be identified for special protection measures". (WWF, Natural Security, 2008, p. 103)
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