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Olga Pilifosova, Manager, Adaptation Programme, United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
Sione Fulivai, from the government of Tonga, described his country’s coordinated approach to development which merges adaptation and DRR throughout all levels of government.
Go Takahashi, Founder & President of Little Bees International, NGO Little Bees International

Disaster risk reduction has been placed in the mainstream of international society’s discussions of development, based on the Sendai Framework that

Aaron Clark-Ginsberg, Postdoctoral Researcher at Stanford University, Stanford University

I worked as Concern Worldwide’s disaster risk reduction documentation officer from 2012-2014, and travelled to Bangladesh to review Concern’s

Michael Mosselmans, Head of Humanitarian Policy and Practice and Programmes, World Food Programme

A DFID-funded consortium research programme asked crisis survivors what we could do better in the design and delivery of humanitarian response

Jessica Cooke, Resilience and Climate Change Policy Officer, Plan International

Lesly, from the Piura region of Peru, covers her face in a blanket during the hour long walk through the dusty desert to reach school. A few months

Kevin Blanchard, Senior Environmental Scientist in Global Disaster Risk Reduction, Public Health England

The Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030 was agreed in 2015.  Since then the global disaster risk reduction community has been

Victoria Sauveplane, Senior Program Manager, Action Against Hunger - Canada

When disaster hits, assessing the severity and magnitude of its impact is often determined through household surveys based on the two most frequently

Rob Roggema, Professor of Sustainable Urban Environments, University of Technology Sydney

The first thoughts after a disaster are never with an interesting design process for the hit area. First concerns need to be with the people that

Jason Von Meding, Senior Lecturer, University of Newcastle, University of Newcastle, the

The Sendai Framework for DRR, like the SDGs and the Paris Agreement, represents a global consensus to address pressing issues for humanity. In May

Susanna Tol, Senior Communications and Advocacy Officer, Wetlands International, Wetlands International

Are ecosystem based solutions to reducing risk gaining ground? And what can be done to bring these solutions from small pilots to scale and integrated

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