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.
DRR Themes & Issues A-Z
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Capacity Development
training and development, learning, institutional strengthening
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Civil Society/NGOs
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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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Early Warning
risk knowledge, monitoring and warning service, risk communication, response capability, disaster preparedness, risk modelling
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Economics of DRR
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Education
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
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Governance
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Health
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Information Management
disaster loss databases, disaster information, disaster risk information portals
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Media
disaster reporting, disaster information dissemination
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Private-public Partnerships
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Recovery
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Risk Identification
risk assessment, loss data, disaster risk management
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Risk Transfer & Insurance
disaster insurance, risk insurance, micro-insurance, risk sharing, risk financing, pooling, contingency funding, flash appeals
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Space Technology
satellite disaster imagery
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Urban Risk
urban planning, urban management
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