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Displaying 75 of about 276 resultsThe Inter-Agency Secretariat of the International Strategy for Disaster Reduction will be launching its 2004 version of “Living with Risk: A global review of disaster reduction initiatives ” on 14 July in New York. Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs Jan Egeland will present this new publication, coinciding with the UN Economic and Social C…
The International Day for Disaster Reduction will be celebrated on Wednesday 8 October at the Palais des Nations in Geneva, with the official opening of the photographic exhibition ‘WATER: Floods in Central Europe’. The exhibition - organised jointly with the Permanent Mission of the Czech Republic to the United Nations - presents a collection of images…
Could you tell us what your lates book "Living in harmony with nature" is about?
This book is a compilation of my 38 years experience in disaster reduction, put in really simple words. It is a book for everybody who is dealing with building construction such as engineers, architects and sociologists. While working on the book, I wrote it in a way so th…
Once again, Cuba reacted well to the last Hurricane Charley. How do you explain the fact that people respond so well to an evacuation alert?
Hurricanes are the worst disasters faced by the Cuban people. Hurricanes are part of our culture and people know the risk they face if they do not evacuate immediately. Our system works very well because there is…
This report of the Working Group on Early Warning Capabilities for Geological Hazards summarizes global experience and reviews the current state of knowledge and practice on the subject.
Proceedings of the first session of the Global Platform Platform on Disaster Risk Reduction, Geneva, 5-7 June 2007, including:
Opening statement,
Extracts from opening address,
Introduction;
Section 1:
Raise awareness on reducing disaster risk
Addresses and interventions by heads of delegations
High level dialogue
Section 2:
Share natio…
This paper outlines the nature and significance of climate change for disaster risk, as well as the main perspectives and approaches of disaster risk reduction and how they can support adaptation strategies. It is aimed at experts and practitioners as well as non-specialists such as teachers and students, journalists and the interested public.
This collection of papers was written by different experts following the impact of Hurricane Mitch in Central America in October 1998. From regional and community perspectives, the authors describe how communities were organized, how they dealt with stress during the crisis, and how they participated in the daily process of making decisions on reducing…
The aim of the Strategy is to contribute to the attainment of sustainable development and poverty eradication by facilitating the integration of disaster risk reduction into development. Disaster risk reduction policies and institutional mechanisms do exist at various degrees of completeness in African countries. However, their effectiveness is limited,…
2000 United Nations World disaster reduction campaign
The prevention of destructive fires is an integral element of land-use policies and fire management strategies. Fire prevention must address a broad range of elements and sectors of society, natural resources and environmental management, land-use planning, and technology development. Fire policies…
Consultation version 2006
The booklet explains a few key concepts on the basis of an apriori understanding of how climate change and disaster risk reduction knowledge and practices have evolved and presently interact with each other. The list remains far from comprehensive, and other key terms, such as resilience, impacts and hazards could be included…
The World Conference on Disaster Reduction (WCDR) proceedings include primary documents together with a summary on the thematic segment of the conference and includes:
The Hyogo Declaration
The Hyogo Framework for Action
The conference was structured in three segments: intergovernmental, thematic and public. It was a rich forum for exchanging vie…
The management of recovery from the ravages of a disaster is complex and unwieldy, routinely involving many different needs, interests and abilities. The subject assumes great importance in any hazard prone country, especially after a disaster, but it has seldom attracted the sustained professional attention of either disaster managers or risk managemen…
An assessment of capacities, gaps and opportunities towards building a comprehensive global early warning system for all natural hazards:
The present report synthesises the findings of a global survey of capacities and gaps for early warning systems requested in March 2005 by the United Nations Secretary-General Mr. Kofi Annan with a view to establish…
With the aim of guiding the implementation of the HFA in respect to drought, the ISDR secretariat in cooperation with the National Drought Mitigation Center (University of Nebraska, USA) and other partners has developed the present document, based on current thinking and practice in many countries. It elaborates a framework for understanding drought and…