Examine the challenges relating to disaster prevention in South Asia.

South Asia1 is home of 1.8 billion people, of which more than 70% live in poverty. Despite having tremendous natural resource base such as water, minerals, forest, productive fertile land and industrious people, this region remains underdeveloped primarily due to political instability, poor leadership, inability to utilize natural resources at optimum level, and regular occurrence of disasters. More than two thirds of the world’s poor people live in Asia, and nearly half of them are in Southern Asia . In the South Asia Region (SAR), Sri Lanka has the highest Human Development Index (HDI) followed by Maldives and India, where as Afghanistan and Nepal have the lowest HDI As the governance, poverty status, access and mobilization of resources, awareness level are among the key factors to show the vulnerability level of a country, HDI rankings can be a good indicator to reflect the coping capacity of a country to disaster risk. The comparative studies of the various elements of disaster risk management systems in South Asia have not been well documented. This paper attempts to analyse the key hazards, country level vulnerabilities and disaster risks in the region. The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of the disaster risk reduction and management systems and its challenges in the countries of South Asia Region. The following sections analyses the key natural hazards, vulnerability and disaster risks, national policies, legal and institutional frameworks in South Asia. Natural hazards and vulnerability in South Asia South Asia __________ _____ __________ _________ _________ ____ _____ ______ ________.
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