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The challenge of Anthropocene risks

This contributing paper paper offers an analysis of the global COVID-19 experience and stepwise implementing consequences which will require a long-term effort involving scientists, decision-makers, and many more. The COVID-19 pandemic has been a stress test for global society, with implications that go beyond the field of global health risks.…
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Using science for disaster risk reduction: report of the ISDR scientific and technical advisory group, 2013

This report asserts that the more widespread integration of science into disaster risk reduction policy making will depend on science being ‘useful, useable and used’. The case studies in the report describe specific examples of scientific learning being employed to enhance disaster risk reduction, providing evidence that science is useable for disaster…
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UNDRR Americas & Caribbean COVID-19 Brief: Science and Technology for DRR in the Context of COVID-19

The Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction (2015-2030) and the International Health Regulations (WHO, 2005) include biological hazards, such as the SARS-CoV-2 virus, among the major sources of risks for the 21st century.  While COVID-19, the infectious disease caused by this most recent coronavirus, was declared by the World Health Organizati…

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