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Displaying 135 of about 151 resultsThis paper presents the results from a multi-country research on loss and damage in vulnerable communities, to study how households with different vulnerability profiles try to deal with climatic stressors and their (in)ability to avoid loss and damage.
The conclusions drawn out of the research are the following:
A high proportion of households…
This paper presents a pilot project initiated by the Asian Disaster Preparedness Center in southern Sri Lanka, which helped to address problems and policy issues in relation to flood protection while mainstreaming climate information applications in order to reduce the vulnerabilities associated with paddy farming.
The main lesson learned fro…
This paper discusses the PEOPLES Resilience Framework, which has been used to create partnerships and communicate pre- and post-disaster recovery of extreme events. The framework can be combined with environmental, infrastructure, economic or any other quantitative model to assess future scenarios. It is based on seven dimensions: population a…
This paper recognises that knowledge management can play a vital role to ensure the availability and accessibility of accurate and reliable disaster risk information, and to support effective lesson learning. The document presents the ISLAND-II research project, set out to identify key disaster knowledge factors pertaining to disaster manageme…
This paper presents the Climate Smart Disaster Risk Management (CSDRM) approach for mainstreaming adaptation to climate change and disaster risk reduction within development at the community level. The approach helps to evaluate the existing tools and frameworks from disaster risk management, climate change adaptation and development that…
This paper describes and analyses three innovative approaches, performed and tested in practice, regarding flood risk education and didactics at different scales: 1) local level in Karlstad, Sweden (appointed resilient city by the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction), 2) subnational level in the large-lake districts in central Sweden an…
This document explains the role of knowledge management for disaster risk reduction (DRR) and climate change adaptation (CCA) regarding stakeholders and the integration of DRR to CCA. The authors propose that the framework of DRR that would follow the Hyogo Framework for Action comprises of a more comprehensive interpretation of informational and knowle…
This paper discusses the important of the human rights-based approach regarding public health for the reduction of disaster risk in Japan. The authors also underline the fact that transboundary cooperation is necessary to prepare for mega-disasters.
This document is an input paper of the 2015 Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction.
This paper presents a methodology to assess existing public information on awareness building programs. It also presents recommendations to contribute to effecting disaster risk reduction change. According to the author, there is a need to develop performance indicators to assess the content of public awareness programs at the national, local, sect…
This input paper for the 2015 Global Assessment Report explores how public and private agencies can help protect the country’s most vulnerable economic activities and productive sectors to reduce the overall impacts of disasters. The publication presents case studies from Australia, New Zealand, Japan, China and Canada.
The conclusions of the…
This background paper provides a resource for the relative analysis of volcanic hazard and risk around the world on the basis of regions and individual countries with volcanoes that have been active in the last 10,000 years. Global information can mask the fact that there are great variations between countries with active volca…
This paper presents a methodology for deriving hazard maps on the global level, which puts emphasis on the use of stream flow data directly and gives credible results in terms of hazard and risk computation. The issue this methodology attempts to resolve is the poor temporal resolution - data is in fact collected monthly and not daily instead.
Thi…
This publication presents the Monitoring Telemetric System for Dam Diagnostics (DAMWATCH), used in Georgia for dam diagnostics recording long-term and short-term patterns of tilts in dams.The system consists of sensors (tiltmeters), terminal and central controllers connected by the GSM/GPRS Modem to the diagnostic center.
The study…
This background paper presents a selection of fully probabilistic hazard and risk assessments conducted at local (city) level in Colombia where the same methodology and model used for the GAR13 and GAR15 have been followed; that is, representing hazard through a set of stochastic scenarios and quantifying physical vulnerability by means o…
This study seeks to develop a more robust understanding of ecosystems-based approaches to disaster risk reduction (DRR) and contribute to the growing literature on this subject. The study targets primarily policymakers who are responsible for setting development priorities and the disaster risk reduction community, which is continually searchi…