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Disaster Risk Reduction in an Unstable World


Disaster Risk Reduction in an Unstable World

Successful disaster risk reduction requires both top-down, institutional changes and strategies and bottom-up, local, community-based approaches.

Disaster Risk Reduction in an Unstable World

Between 1970 and 2019, more than 11,000 disasters were attributed to weather, climate, and water-related hazards, accounting for more than two million ...

Disaster Risk Reduction | Working in Crises and Conflict | Archive

Disaster risk reduction is a broad term that includes anything we do to prevent or reduce the damage caused by natural hazards like earthquakes, floods, ...

INTRODUCTION TO DISASTER RISK REDUCTION !

Disaster risk management aims to avoid, lessen or transfer the adverse effects of hazards through activities and measures for prevention, mitigation and ...

Climate action and disaster risk reduction | UNDRR

The disaster risk reduction community has decades of experience in managing extreme events and reducing risk related to potential climate-related disasters.

What is the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction? - UNDRR

Such knowledge can be used for risk assessment, prevention, mitigation, preparedness and response. Priority 2. Strengthening disaster risk governance to manage ...

Living with Risk

In 2001 the ISDR Secretariat conducted a global survey on disaster risk reduction ... unstable slopes in Venezuela resulting in more than 20,000 fatalities ...

Disaster Risk Reduction - UNESCO

Climate change, urban pressure and lack of disaster preparedness, are increasingly transforming natural hazards, such as earthquakes, volcanic eruptions or ...

Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015 - 2030

During the World Conference, States also reiterated their commitment to address disaster risk reduction and the building of resilience2 to disasters with a ...

European Disaster Risk Management

Actions to strengthen financial preparedness are needed to reduce the impacts of disasters on people, economies and government budgets. Beyond ...

The post-disaster reconstruction challenges in an unstable world

To avoid rebuilding, the best approach is probably to limit the risk of destruction. Enter, mitigation. As a country particularly exposed to ...

Gender Dynamics of Disaster Risk and Resilience - World Bank

This poses challenges for disaster risk management practitioners since information on affected population is often limited to aggregated numbers ...

Our impact - UNDRR

The convergence between disaster risk reduction, sustainable development, financing for development, and climate change mitigation and adaptation presents a ...

Disaster risk reduction and resilience

Disaster risk reduction (DRR) is aimed at preventing new and reducing existing disaster risks as well as managing residual risk. DRR contributes to ...

Reducing Disasters Risks at World Heritage Properties

Heritage in DRR policies – The Sendai Framework · Priority 1. Understanding disaster risk · Priority 2. Strengthening disaster risk governance to manage disaster ...

Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015–2030

Reducing disaster risk is a cost-effective investment in preventing future losses. Effective disaster risk management contributes to sustainable development.

Disaster risk reduction strategies in fragile and complex risk contexts

Those concerned with advancing DRR are arguably better at responding to the manifestation of disasters than to articulating the complex risk drivers from ...

Disaster Risk Reduction and Resilience | IOM, UN Migration

Currently, some 25 million people are displaced each year by disasters. It is expected that hazardous events – amplified by compound risk factors such as ...

Disaster risk reduction in conflict contexts

We strive for a peaceful world – where people are protected from the impacts of disasters and conflicts, and where prevention of disaster and conflict risk is ...

Disaster risk reduction | IFRC

Such measures include adaptative livelihoods, health and social support and inclusive disaster preparedness and response. “This is exactly the kind of ...