DRR Community Voices

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Professional Meteorologist Analyzing Climate Science Data For Weather Forecast.
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Bapon Fakhruddin Matti Heikkurinen
A data engineering approach to tracking global climate resilience
Adaptation is not a single dataset. It comprises numerous distinct data holdings distributed across NHMSs, sectoral ministries, NDMAs. Each of these sources operates within its own technical conventions. As a result, data may not be directly comparable.
Drone captures dramatic scene of firefighters battling a blaze in Minnesota.
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Julie Flore
Aerial data matters when it changes recovery decisions
When aerial observation is connected to field verification, engineering judgement and a clear recovery decision, it can save time, reduce avoidable exposure and make infrastructure recovery more accountable.
Modern city and environmental technology concept.
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Dr. Alan Bostakian
Resilient cities in times of crisis: The UN's Ten Essentials through a change management lens
UNDRR's Ten Essentials for Making Cities Resilient provide a framework for strengthening urban resilience. The Association of Change Management Professionals (ACMP) Standard for Change Management® offers a complementary perspective.
Teacher helps children learn on laptop in rustic room.
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Shubham Kashyap
Building resilience also means protecting Indigenous languages
Resilient infrastructure enables Indigenous communities to remain on their ancestral lands and protects more than lives and livelihoods. It also helps preserve languages, cultures and the knowledge systems that underpin resilience.
Participants of a Stop Disasters workshop in Athens, Greece
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Sofia Karma Alex Tsakiridis Dimitrios Alexandris Efstathia Athinaiou Evangelos Aggelopoulos Ioannis Kolovos
"Disaster risk management is a balancing act, not a right answer" and that is the lesson!
A culture of safety requires investing in younger generations and creating opportunities for them to engage with disaster risk in meaningful ways.
Drone over a wildfire
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Patrick Maple
How drone-based multispectral mapping supports disaster risk assessment and early warning
The most valuable drone flight is not necessarily the one carried out immediately after a disaster. It may be the routine survey conducted months earlier, documenting a landscape before it changes.
Mobile phone base station on a rooftop.
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Emirhan Duman
Why disaster risk management needs an offline-first communication layer
This author's message to disaster risk management professionals is simple: treat communication as lifeline infrastructure and plan for redundancy, just as we do for water, power and shelter.
A woman walks on a flooded road with her child after the rain in Lagos, West of Nigeria on October 6, 2022.
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Omowaye Emmanuel Pelumi Taiwo Ogunwumi
Is Nigeria on track? Evaluating disaster risk reduction progress under the Sendai Framework
This article examines Nigeria’s progress toward achieving the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015–2030 targets through the four priorities for action.