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GAR 2019 contributing papers

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The UN Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction (GAR) is the flagship report of the United Nations on worldwide efforts to reduce disaster risk. The GAR is published biennially by the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR).

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Documents and publications
2019

Moving from crisis management to risk assessment for drought planning using Standardized Precipitation Index (SPI) and Standardized Groundwater Level Index (SWI): Case study of Marathwada, India

The growing demand for water resources is aggravating its scarcity across the world. It is used in a large spectrum of sectors ranging from domestic to industrial, agricultural and environmental activities. Additionally, water resources form a prime

United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction
Documents and publications
2019

The interplay between socio-economic crises and disaster risks: Examples from the developed and developing world

Regardless of the origin, financial and socio-economic crises feature combinations of adverse conditions: lack of access to financing/credit, slump in investments, household demand and consumption, a falling GDP, high deficits and debt ratios, loss of

United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction
Documents and publications
2019

A value chain approach to optimising early warning systems

Effective weather-related disaster warnings highlight periods of increased risk, whether due to enhanced hazard likelihood (e.g. the approach of a storm), high levels of exposure (e.g. crowds gathering in a hazardous location for a festival) or high

United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction
Documents and publications
2019

Global trends in advancing tsunami science for improved hazard and risk understanding

This paper provides a timely review of progress and ongoing research needs in tsunami hazard and risk science since the most recent major event, the Tohoku tsunami in 2011. The tsunami community has made significant progress in understanding tsunami

United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction
Documents and publications
2019

Investing in disaster risk reduction: Scale and effect of investment in flood protection in Asia

Investment in disaster risk reduction (DRR) is indispensable for enhancing resilience and for achieving sustainable development. Therefore, understanding the current scale and effects of DRR investment is crucial for promoting it. This paper analyzes the

United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction
Documents and publications
2019

Sendai Framework implementation – a regional assessment of wildfires in West Africa

Wildfire outbreaks in West Africa during the last decade have become a huge challenge towards biodiversity, soil fertility, fora and fauna, agricultural sector development and the promotion of traditional medicine in this zone, and they facilitate land

United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction
Documents and publications
2019

A geo-hydro-mechanical approach to landslide hazard assessment and mitigation: a successful application in Southern Italy

Landslides are recognized as part of the geological hazards. They represent a variety of slope failure processes, which could be predisposed by hydrological, hydrogeological and mechanical slope features, or triggered by climatic events, along with

United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction
Documents and publications
2019

Resilience improvement needs for public water supply systems in Dar Es Salaam

The impacts of natural hazards in the form of floods are severe, and lifeline systems such as water supply are at risk. Tanzania is no exclusion to this risk. A 30” water transmission main in Dar es Salaam was broken and dragged away following recent

United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction
Documents and publications
2019

Flash flood warnings: Recent achievements in France with the national Vigicrues Flash system

Flash floods (FF) events are difficult to forecast because of their small temporal and spatial scale. Furthermore, they often occur on un-monitored small rivers, where no real-time data is available to warn people. To better anticipate these events and

United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction
Documents and publications
2019

The RESCULT project: a new European interoperable database for improving the resilience of cultural heritage subject to disasters

Disasters represent a serious threat to cultural heritage by causing permanent damages or the destruction of entire areas where movable and immovable cultural goods are located. Moreover, inadequate emergency operations can intensify what natural

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