Traditional and Indigenous knowledges

Claiming to have been more prepared to face the tsunami disaster, residents living in some seaside villages of Aceh admitted they heard the early warning system siren but preferred to observe natural signs before seeking shelter...

'Integrating disaster risk reduction from the beginning, during the planning stage, and taking a consistent approach will ensure the best results,' Susana Malcorra, Chef de Cabinet to Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on his behalf as the Assembly held a day-long interactive thematic debate on the subject...

'The suffering and loss experienced during the floods last year have forced planners to rethink the development strategies they have being pursuing over the past few decades. Blindly aping the West and using foreign methods to tackle Asian floods have resulted in disastrous consequences, writes Said Irandoust,' president of the Asian Institute of Technology...

This report is one of the main outputs from UNDP DDC's activities of the Africa-Asia Drought Risk Management Peer Assistance Network (AADP), funded by the Government of Japan, in 2011. It reviews the current drought risk management (DRM) institutional and

The Mayor of the fabled city of Venice, Giorgio Orsoni, has been chosen by UNISDR as Europe's first Champion of Urban Resilience in recognition of his efforts to build resilience to disasters and protect cultural heritage.

Farmers are trained to adopt new and diversified agriculture and pastoralist practices that increase production and boost incomes; and to deal with extreme climate events through disaster risk reduction plans, access to financial and environmental actions...

The 2,000 year-old Rice Terraces of the Philippine Cordilleras are a UNESCO world heritage site often described as the 8th Wonder of the World. Their preservation is at the heart of an environmental campaign launched last weekend by UNISDR's Regional Disaster Risk Reduction Champion, Senator Loren Legarda.

A call for an intensified campaign to drive home the need for more investment in disaster risk reduction by Sir John Holmes, former British diplomat and United Nations Under Secretary General for Humanitarian Affairs...