Economics of DRR

The UNISDR, with the World Bank and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) announced a joint cooperation, during the Bali Disaster Risk Reduction Forum...

This two-page briefing argues that to avoid wasting the massive investment in National Adaptation Programmes of Action (NAPAs) so far, it is key for richer nations to give NAPAs the fiscal and institutional support they need.

With barely six months left before countries have to clinch a climate change deal in Copenhagen in December, a call for more money - over and above development aid - to help poor countries adapt to climate change...

Disaster risk reduction and adaptation to climate change in developing countries:

This report focuses on adaptation to climate change, its links with disaster risk reduction and how the strengthening of the resilience of vulnerable countries and

This paper gives an introduction to the GFDRR South-South Cooperation Program which aims to facilitate collaboration among low- and middle-income countries to mainstream disaster risk reduction and recovery, including climate change adaptation, into

Risk and poverty in a changing climate:

This summary presents the key findings and recommendations of the Report, which identifies disaster risk, analyses its causes, shows that these causes can be addressed and recommends the means to do so. The over

The Report is the first biennial global assessment of disaster risk reduction prepared in the context of the International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (ISDR).

This document presents a simple approach to elaborate a scenario regarding the potential impacts of a tsunami in a city exposed to such a hazard. The approach has been tailored to span eleven typical development sectors which are present in every city