Change Needed In Managing Disaster: Vocea
“Most of these communities are already experiencing rising sea levels that have inundated their homes, ruined their farming land with saltwater, flooded their ancestral burial grounds and left them vulnerable to landslides and tsunami,” he said.
Friday 10 February 2023 | 18:15
Participants at the Fiji Tsunami Ready Stakeholder Workshop at the Grand Pacific Hotel on February 8, 2023. Photo: Josefa Babitu
There is a need to change the way we manage risks due to the increasing complexity of disasters, says the Assistant Minister for Disaster Management, Jovesa Vocea.
Given that 27 per cent of Fiji’s population live within one kilometre of the coastline while 76 per cent within just five kilometres, Mr Vocea said the chances of much bigger and destructive disasters happening were much higher.
“Most of these communities are already experiencing rising sea levels that have inundated their homes, ruined their farming land with saltwater, flooded their ancestral burial grounds and left them vulnerable to landslides and tsunami,” he said.
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