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Risk Identification & Assessment
A structured analytical process designed to determine the nature and extent of risk by analyzing potential hazards and evaluating existing conditions of vulnerability that together could potentially harm exposed people, property, services, livelihoods and the environment on which they depend.
UN says natural disasters cost $2.5 tn since 2000
15 May 2013, AFP
'If you add in all the nationally-reported disasters, which don't get into the international media and the international databases, losses are about 50 percent higher than is currently being reported, and losses are going up rapidly,' Andrew Maskrey, author of the latest Global Assessment Report said. The report will be available at the Global platform for disaster risk reduction...
Extracts of progress reports by progress indicator on the implementation of the Hyogo Framework for Action
- Indicator 2.1 [PDF, 116Kb]National and local risk assessments based on hazard data and vulnerability information are available and include risk assessments for key sectors
- Indicator 2.2 [PDF, 109Kb]Systems are in place to monitor, archive and disseminate data on key hazards and vulnerabilities
- Indicator 2.4 [PDF, 104Kb]National and local risk assessments take account of regional / trans boundary risks, with a view to regional cooperation on risk reduction
- Global platform for disaster risk reduction 2013: Fourth session19-23 May 2013, Switzerland (Geneva)
- Seventh national seismic conference on bridges and highways20-22 May 2013, United States of America (Oakland)
- GIS and remote sensing in multi hazard early warning systems20-23 May 2013, Kenya (Nairobi)
- Postgraduate Diploma (PGD) in disaster risk management and development studiesCDRM&DS, Nigeria (Minna)
- Masters in disaster risk management and development studiesCDRM&DS, Nigeria (Minna)
- Disaster management graduate programITU, Turkey (Istanbul)
Guía para análisis de amenazas, vulnerabilidades y capacidades 'AVC' con la participación de niñas, niños y adolescentes para el contexto urbano2013, CRIC; Plan Intl; UNDP Ecuador
Manual de ingenieria naturalistica2012, Plan Intl; SNGR, Ecuador - gov; UNDP Ecuador
- New Swiss nuclear plants on hold as earthquake risks examined2011, WRS
- Weather hastened Haiti quake - experts2011, AlertNet
- ARkStorm scenario2011, USGS, United States of America - gov
External Online Resources
- Adaptation atlas
- Aqueduct’s water risk framework
- Aviation-weather disaster risk reduction
- China Risk Net - 中国风险网
- ClimatePrep: adaptation stories, lessons, and explorations (WWF)
- Corporación (OSSO)
- DARA: Climate vulnerability monitor
- Desinventar: Inventory system of the effects of disasters
- Disaster risk reduction (DRR) project portal for Asia and the Pacific
- eCAPRA: Probabilistic risk assessment
- FAO and emergencies, from prevention to building back better
- FLOODsite: Integrated Flood Risk Analysis and Management Methodologies
- France: Portail DICRIM - Document d'Information Communal sur les RIsques Majeurs (in French)
- GFDRR: Introduction to damage, loss and needs assessment self-paced course
- Global Disaster Alert and Coordination System (GDACS)
- Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery (GFDRR)
- Humanitarian early warning system (HEWS): HEWSweb
- IMCORE: initiatives to manage coastal risks linked to climate change
- IRI: Climate Predictability Tool (CPT)
- IRI: Climate risk knowledge for water
- Italy: Emilia earthquake clearinghouse (in English and Italian)
- MATRIX - Multi-hazard and multi-risk assessment methods for Europe
- ProVention Consortium: community risk assessment toolkit
- ProVention Consortium: risk analysis & application
- Quake loss assessment for rescue and mitigation (QLARM)
- Sharing knowledge on disaster preparedness in the Himalayan region
- Sri Lanka: RiskInfo - disaster risk information platform, risk information for all
- The gender and disaster sourcebook
- UN-HABITAT: disaster assessment portal
- Weatherathome
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