Responsible Land Aministration in Disaster Risk Management

Abstract

Lack of policy and tool transfer between LA and DRM at multiple levels Policy transfer is a concept that gains importance at the global level, where politically and institutionally speaking, broad agreement exists in policies, goals, and indicators with regard to the achievement of global sustainability (UN, 2015). Methods for transferring the agenda to national level, and beyond, are a logical next step in the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and its seventeen Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The United Nations initiative on Global 'Resilience' means the ability of a system, community or society exposed to hazards to resist, absorb, accommodate, adapt to, transform and recover from the effects of a hazard in a timely and efficient manner, including through the preservation and restoration of its essential basic structures and functions through risk management (Mitchell, 2011). Chapter 2 On the need of responsible LA in DRM   This chapter is based on an ISI journal paper published as;