为了推进全球的减灾活动，提高全民的减灾意识，联合国《国际减灾战略》特别工作组秘书处在今年4月发布了2001年国际减灾日主题：抵御灾害，减轻易损性。该主题的目标是：通过实际的减灾行动，减轻地震、飓风、火山喷发、海啸、洪水、干旱及滑坡等自然灾害的易损性；此外，还要求加强科学技术在减轻灾害中的作用、 In order to promote global disaster reduction activities and raise people’s awareness of disaster reduction, the secretariat of the UNISP Task Force released this year’s theme of International Day for Disaster Reduction in April this year: fighting disasters and reducing vulnerability. The objective of this theme is to mitigate the vulnerability of natural disasters such as earthquakes, hurricanes, volcanic eruptions, tsunamis, floods, droughts and landslides through practical disaster risk reduction actions and, in addition, to strengthen the role of science and technology in disaster mitigation,