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Professional Resources

ISDR System partners and organizations working in disaster risk reduction (DRR).
Professional communities of practice and discussion groups related to DRR. Please join or start a network.
Professional development on DRR themes & issues through conferences, workshops, formal training and academic programmes in DRR. Please contribute.

Higher education programmes including university degree programmes and for-credit certificate or diploma courses emphasizing disaster risk reduction offered by universities and other academic institutions.

Curricular, extra-curricular and public awareness materials including children's books, textbooks, lesson plans, activities, games, and online resources on disaster prevention and school safety for primary, secondary, vocational, community-based education and public awareness.

Opportunities for professionals working in DRR. Please contribute your vacancies.
Official ISDR terminology. Emerging definitions will be available, and users will have the ability to comment and contribute to the evolution of a complete vocabulary for DRR.
Disaster risk reduction related documents from ISDR System partners and disaster risk reduction actors.
Disaster risk reduction related regional or national policy, plans and official statements.
DRR in the news and ISDR System partner announcements. Please contribute.
Links to online video, interactive presentations, and CD/DVD-ROM collections related to DRR. Please contribute to the collection.
Selected hazard, risk and vulnerability maps. Please contribute.
Quick hazard or region/country links to disaster profiles from EM-DAT data and risk profiles from the UNISDR Global Assessment Report.

Find or contribute curricular, extra-curricular and public awareness materials on disaster prevention and school safety for primary, secondary, vocational, community-based education and public awareness.