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Science and technology

This theme adresses how science and technology can contribute to DRR, including approaches and initiatives to bring scientific and technical knowledge into practice and policy, approaches for multidisciplinary engagement, good practice in scientific and technical aspects of DRR, and citizen science.

Latest Science & technology additions in the Knowledge Base

Early warning systems are only as good as the understanding that people have of their messages
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Early warnings must make sense

Early warning systems are doomed to fail if they don’t make sense to the very people that they are meant to help, delegates heard today at an international conference on harnessing science and technology to implement the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction.
United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction
The 2007 floods in the United Kingdom were a wake-up call for the country's management of disaster risk
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Break silos to curb risk

Breaking the silos between a plethora of agencies is a critical tool to help curb the threat of natural and man-made hazards, delegates heard today at a global conference on using science to implement the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction.
United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction
Mr. Robert Glasser, head of UNISDR, makes a point during the panel discussion at opening today of the UNISDR Science and Technology Conference (Photo: UNISDR/Fabio Chironi)
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Tribute paid to climate change scientists

The UNISDR Science and Technology Conference opened today in Geneva with a tribute by the head of UNISDR, Mr. Robert Glasser, to the hundreds of scientists who have contributed their time to ground-breaking research on climate change and its impacts.
United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction
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How can science play a bigger part in reducing disaster risk?

What more can we do protect drought-vulnerable populations? Famine early warning systems are in place but last year the number of major recorded droughts doubled around the world, leaving many people in dire straits when it comes to food security and drinking water...
Thomson Reuters Foundation, trust.org
The UNISDR Science and Technology Conference begins on Wednesday (Photo: UNISDR)
Press release

Science vital to managing disaster risk

On the eve of the first-ever gathering of scientists to discuss disaster risk management, the head of the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction, Dr. Robert Glasser, today said: “Government leaders and decision makers should give greater attention to the science on disaster risk and climate change to reduce exposure to extreme disaster events and to promote sustainable development.
United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction
UNISDR Director Mr. Adam Boulokos speaking on ICTs and the Sendai Framework at the Global Forum on Emergency Telecommunications (Photo: ITU/R. Moodady)
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ICTs and the Sendai Framework

The "2nd Global Forum on Emergency Telecommunications (GET-2016): SAVING LIVES" opens today in Kuwait and serves as an international platform to discuss international Emergency Telecommunication policy and disaster risk reduction topics. Information and Communications Technology (ICT) has a key role to play in implementing the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction.
United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction - Regional Office for Arab States
Documents and publications

Science policy interfaces in disaster risk management in the EU: mapping the support provided by science in the EU civil protection mechanism

This research studies how states acquire science-based advice and if existing structures facilitate the space for science-based advice in disaster risk management. The report is based on collection and analysis of publicly available material and covers

Mr. Adriel Brathwaite, Chairman of the CDEMA Council of Ministers (right), presents the award to Mr. Jeremy Collymore, former Executive Director, CDEMA (centre), alongside its current Executive Director, Mr. Ronald Jackson (left)
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Caribbean’s new disaster risk awards

The Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management Agency is introducing a new awards scheme to recognise distinction in reducing disaster risk including the Jeremy Collymore Award for Research in Disaster Response and Disaster Risk Management.
United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction – Regional Office for the Americas and the Caribbean

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