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Displaying 30 of about 151 resultsThis input paper recognises that reducing disaster risks and impact is a shared responsibility across different stakeholders from different sectors. That shared responsibility can be strengthened through a knowledge-sharing platform with strong partnership. The Academic Network for Disaster Resilience to Optimise educatIonal Development (ANDROID) i…
This report gives a brief overview of the tsunami hazard component of the 2015 Global Assessment Report, involving a global hazard analysis. The work presented is the first global scale probabilistic assessment of tsunami hazard. The publication details the applied methodology and input parameters.
The results of this assessment are tsunami inundation…
This study presents a risk assessment carried out in Colombia, Belize and Spain with an open model that can be used by every government or user: the CAPRA (Comprehensive Approach to Probabilistic Risk Assessment) platform. This platform is open access, open source and has a modular architecture, and can be used free of cost.
This do…
This paper discusses the lessons learned from a comparative analysis of Early Warning Systems (EWS) for floods in Europe (Belgium) and Africa (Egypt, Mali). This paper focuses on the substantial challenges in the effective use of an EWS as a tool to strengthen preparedness and community resilience to floods and droughts.
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This study examines areas in Africa, South America and the Arab region subject to different levels of both land degradation (LD) and agricultural drought hazard (ADH). The authors estimate crop losses related to the impacts of drought and land degradation combined.
The conclusions warn that drought and land degradation could impact…
This report contains a synopsis of volcanism from a hazard and risk perspective and highlights the wide range of hazards posed by volcanoes and describes their diverse impacts on communities This summary report complements a longer technical background paper.
The document identifies the following pillars for risk reduction concerning volcanic risks:…
The paper discusses the conceptualization of drought and proceeds with analysing drought risk management which includes risk assessment and modelling based on spatial technology in Malawi, Niger, Mozambique and Kenya.
The author concludes that it is essential to extend the proposed methodology to other rain-fed crops in the selected countries and…
This document asks if transformation pathways for disaster risk management can be observed, and if so then how and why they unfold as observed. The study uses a qualititative analysis to establish an empirical basis for policy development that can more actively open strategic transformative action whithin the disaster risk management field.
The…
In the aftermath of Typhoon Haiyan in 2013, a majority of the designated evacuation centers (mostly in the form of school buildings or public gymnasiums) were severely damaged. In the drive to build back better and safer, the Philippine Disaster Resilience Foundation and its partners aimed to build safer and more structurally sound, dual‐purpose evacuat…
This paper presents the CATSIM methodology, which combines estimates of the direct, monetary risk a country is exposed to with an evaluation of sovereign fiscal resilience. National hazard, exposure and resilience data is input into CATSIM, which is used to identify the likelihood of a disaster to overwhelm the government's ability to finance the recove…
UNISDR presents AGREED, an informative bimestrial bulletin created for parliamentarians interested in being connected with the Disaster Risk Reduction community.
Through AGREED, UNISDR's Parliamentarian Initiative commits to support parliamentarians in implementing the Sendai Framework, facilitating a space for opinions, news and for sharing best practi…
This publication explores the interlinkages between the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). It describes every SDG and its contribution to preventing new- and reducing existing disaster risk, and strengthening resilience.
This study explores the factors determining and/or limiting local ownership of the main disaster risk reduction (DRR) components. The central question of this study is: “what critical factors limit the uptake of disaster risk reduction policies at the local level?”. It demonstrates the importance of examining the root cause of vulnerabili…