Urban risk & planning

This theme contributes to the understanding of urban risk, which includes urban hazards, exposure and vulnerability. It also covers aspects related to improving awareness, as well as local governance and local capacity to effectively reduce disaster risk.

Latest Urban risk & planning additions in the Knowledge Base

A/CONF.172/L.6:

This document addresses vulnerability to natural disasters leading to complex emergencies in megacities, metropolitan regions, and small and medium-sized cities in developed or developing nations.

It presents the recommendations of the

A contribution to the preparations for the Second United Nations Conference on Human Settlements (Habitat II):

This document emphasizes the importance of urbanization for the level of risk of natural disasters and other phenomena, and highlights the

This PHD research is driven by the need to provide a better understanding of the challenges of increasing risk and its impact on the living conditions of the urban poor, as well as to provide new conceptual and strategic approaches to face those

The European Commission and the Global Risk Forum GRF Davos have signed an MoU to provide customer driven scientific and technical support for the conception, development implementation and monitoring of European Union policies...
Global Risk Forum

The time between the triggering event and the tsunami’s landfall is a key variable as it influences the effectiveness of tsunami early warning systems and the possibility of evacuation. Chile, India, Indonesia, Myanmar, Peru, the Solomon Islands, Portugal

Records and outcomes of the International Symposium 2008 on Earthquake Safe Housing, 28-29 November 2008, Tokyo, Japan:

This document illustrates the work of the Housing Earthquake Safety Initiative (HESI), which goal is to improve structural safety of

This book shares with the humanitarian community over thirty case studies of completed emergency and transitional shelter projects. The project summaries included aim to illustrate some of the shelter project options available to organisations working in

This book is concerned with the effects of natural hazards on the urban environment and the steps which can be taken by governments, other organizations and individuals, particularly of the world's great conurbations, or megacities, to mitigate those

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