Disaster risk reduction
Reducing exposure to hazards and lessening vulnerability of people, property and the environment, building resilience and improving preparedness for adverse events
Latest Documents
- Mitigating disasters — a promising start
- J. Maurice / The Lancet, 2013
- A ten-year United Nations plan to make the world safer from natural disasters went into effect in 2005. With 2015 nearing, countries are now assessing how well it has worked. The Hyogo Framework for Action spelled out what all countri...
- Global assessment report on disaster risk reduction 2013 - From shared risk to shared value: the business case for disaster risk reduction
- United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction, 2013
- The 2013 Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction (GAR13) makes the business case for investing in disaster risk management (DRM) and highlights potential opportunities for creating shared value. The report is a...
- Global Estimates 2012: People displaced by disasters
- M. Yonetani / Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre, 2013
- Over five years from 2008 to 2012, around 144 million people were forced from their homes in 125 countries. In 2012, an estimated 32.4 million people in 82 countries were newly displaced by disasters associated with natural hazards tr...
- Climate resilience and disaster risk management: stories of change from CDKN
- M. Dupar / Climate and Development Knowledge Network, 2013
- This brief presents results from projects supported by the Climate and Development Knowledge Network (CDKN) to assess vulnerability and mainstream climate resilience into development planning. Case studies from India, Ghana and Colomb...
- Analysis on the linkages between population dynamics, urban development and disaster risk reduction in Latin America
- International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (ISDR), 2012
- With both urban population and the frequency of disasters increasing in Latin America, it is necessary to adequately plan for sustainable growth that takes these changing dynamics into account. With this in mind, multiple agencies wit...
- Disaster risk management in post-2015 development goals: potential targets and indicators
- T. Mitchell / Overseas Development Institute, 2013
- Disasters can hamper economic growth, affect poverty levels and cause human suffering. This paper argues that including measures to promote disaster risk management (DRM) in the post-2015 development goals is needed to incentivise inv...
- The role of ecosystem services in climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction
- R. Munang / Science Direct, 2013
- This paper analyses the connections between climate change impacts, ecosystem degradation and increased risk of climate-related disasters. It defines the central role of ecosystem management in climate change adaptation and disaster r...
- Disaster risk management in south Asia: a regional overview
- World Bank, 2012
- The number of disasters per year has quadrupled over the past four decades in the South Asia Region (SAR), resulting in damages of over US$25 billion in the past five years alone. However, exposure and vulnerability to natural hazards...
- Climate risk management for sustainable crop production in Uganda: Rakai and Kapchorwa districts
- J. Dekens / United Nations Development Programme, 2013
- Uganda has been regarded as a development success story due to its increasing economic growth and declining poverty. Nevertheless, the country’s economic dependence on agriculture makes it very sensitive to climate variability an...
- Climate risk management for agriculture in Peru: focus on the regions of Junin and Piura
- M. Keller / United Nations Development Programme, 2013
- Agriculture employs about a third of the population in the Peruvian regions of Junín and Piura. Yet agricultural productivity is impeded by low technology and investments, as well as fragmented land tenure. Climate events alrea...
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