Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction 2015
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Part II - Chapter 7
Capacity
(i) Support the development and sustainability of the infrastructure and scientific, technological, technical and institutional capacities needed to research, observe, analyse, map and where possible forecast natural and related hazards, vulnerabilities and disaster impacts. (j) Support the development and improvement of relevant databases and the promotion of full and open exchange and dissemination of data for assessment, monitoring and early warning purposes, as appropriate, at international, regional, national and local levels. (k) Support the improvement of scientific and technical methods and capacities for risk assessment, monitoring and early warning, through research, partnerships, training and technical capacitybuilding. Promote the application of in situ and space-based earth observations, space technologies, remote sensing, geographic information systems, hazard modelling and prediction, weather and climate modelling and forecasting, communication tools and studies of the costs and benefits of risk assessment and early warning. (l) Establish and strengthen the capacity to record, analyze, summarize, disseminate, and exchange statistical information and data on hazards mapping, disaster risks, impacts, and losses; support the development of common methodologies for risk assessment and monitoring. Regional and transboundary risks
(m) Compile and standardize, as appropriate, statistical information and data on regional disaster risks, impacts and losses. (n) Cooperate regionally and internationally, as appropriate, to assess and monitor regional and trans-boundary hazards, and exchange information and provide early warnings through appropriate arrangements, such as, inter alia, those relating to the management of river basins. Research
(n) Develop improved methods for predictive multi-risk assessments and socioeconomic cost–benefit analysis of risk reduction actions at all levels; incorporate these methods into decision-making processes at regional, national and local levels. (o) Strengthen the technical and scientific capacity to develop and apply methodologies, studies and models to assess vulnerabilities to and the impact of geological, weather, water and climate-related hazards, including the improvement of regional monitoring capacities and assessments Since the adoption of the HFA, there has been explosive growth in the production of risk information by public-sector scientific and technical institutions, universities and international organizations at all scales (GFDRR, 2014a
GFDRR (Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery). 2014a,Understanding Risk: The Evolution of Disaster Risk Assessment since 2005, Background Paper prepared for the 2015 Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction. Geneva, Switzerland: UNISDR.. Click here to view this GAR paper. significant progress has been made in each critical element of the risk assessment process (Figure 7. 4).
There has been substantial progress towards creating and providing open access to many global and national data sets critical to understanding hazard. The greater availability of global data sets on population, building types, satellite imagery, and so on is opening up significant opportunities to model global exposure at higher and higher resolutions. At the national and subnational levels, data and information from government ministries (such as statistics authorities,
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