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Themes & Issues

Disaster risk reduction (DRR) work "concerns everyone, from villagers to heads of state, from bankers and lawyers to farmers and foresters, from meteorologists to media chiefs." (Living with Risk: A Global Review of Disaster Reduction Initiatives 2004. Geneva: UN/ISDR, 2004). DRR-related themes and issues are wide and cross-cutting.

  • Capacity Development training and development, institutional strengthening, institutional learning
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  • Civil Society/NGOs civic action, collective community action, community-based organization (CBO) action, grassroots action, integrative DRR, non-governmental organization (NGO) action
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  • Climate Change adaptation to climate change, sustainable development
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  • Community-based DRR local knowledge, local risk mapping
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  • Complex Emergency multiple hazard crisis, humanitarian crisis, conflict
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  • Critical Infrastructure communications systems, health facilities, 'lifelines', power and energy, emergency evacuation shelters, financial infrastructure, schools, transportation, waste disposal, water supplies
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  • Disaster Risk Management civil protection, contingency and emergency planning, early recovery, preparedness
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  • Early Warning risk knowledge, monitoring and warning service, risk communication, response capability, disaster preparedness, risk modelling
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  • Economics of DRR cost benefit analysis, disaster risk financing, financial effects of disasters, poverty and disaster risk, risk sharing, socio-economic impacts of disasters
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  • Education & School Safety learning, safe schools
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  • Environment sustainable development, environmental degradation, ecosystems and environmental management
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  • Gender gendered vulnerability, gender-sensitive disaster risk management
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  • GIS & Mapping geographic information systems, hazard exposure mapping, vulnerability mapping, risk mapping
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  • Governance disaster risk reduction policy and legislation, National Platform for disaster risk reduction, Regional Platforms for disaster risk reduction
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  • Health & Health Facilities capacity of health practitioners, mental health
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  • Information Management disaster databases, disaster information, disaster risk information portals, ICT
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  • Media disaster reporting, disaster information dissemination
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  • Private-public Partnerships corporate social responsibility, private sector engagement in DRR
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  • Recovery building back better, long-term recovery and reconstruction, rehabilitation, shelter
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  • Risk Identification & Assessment risk assessment, loss data, disaster risk management
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  • Risk Transfer & Insurance disaster insurance, contingency funding, micro-insurance, post-disaster loans, risk financing, risk insurance, risk sharing, pooling
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  • Social Impacts & Resilience coping capacity, loss absorption, loss acceptance, psychosocial support, social vulnerability, trauma prevention
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  • Space Technology satellite disaster imagery
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  • Structural Safety building codes, building standards, building materials, construction, retrofitting
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  • Urban Risk & Planning urban planning, urban management
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  • Vulnerable Populations
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  • Water drinking water, freshwater, irrigation, potable water, water and sanitation, water resource management
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