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Displaying 4 of about 4 resultsRisk and Resilience in practice: Vulnerabilities, Displaced People, Local Communities and Heritages
The Building Resilience Conference is an annual international conference exploring resilience as a useful framework of analysis for how society can cope with the threat of natural and human induced hazards. The 2018 edition is organised by th…
By Mami Mizutori
It is just over three years since United Nations Member States adopted the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030, the global plan to reduce disaster losses, which is pivotal to the success of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. It focuses primarily on prevention, aiming to recognize and nullify disaster r…
By Mami Mizutori
No other region in the world illustrates the now chronic nature of displacement caused by extreme weather events and climate change more than Asia and the Pacific.
Last year, 18.8 million people were forced to run for their lives from floods, storms and earthquakes in 135 countries across the globe.
Once again, it was the most disast…
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Forced displacement is one of the most common and immediate impacts of disasters. Facilitating people’s movement to avoid their exposure to life-threatening situations via evacuations or planned relocations is one of the most effective ways of reducing mortality and injury. Having to flee one’s home, however, particularly…