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Disaster risk management

Disaster risk management is the application of disaster risk reduction policies and strategies to prevent new disaster risk, reduce existing disaster risk and manage residual risk, contributing to the strengthening of resilience and reduction of disaster losses.

Latest Disaster risk management additions in the Knowledge Base

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Lao PDR: Disaster Management Reference Handbook

This Handbook provides the reader with a baseline understanding of national entities involved in disaster management.
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An efficient, multi-scale neighbourhood index to quantify wildfire likelihood

This study aimed to develop an approach for quantifying wildfire likelihood that is both computationally efficient and able to consider contagious and directionally specific fire behaviour properties across multiple spatial ‘neighbourhood’ scales.
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Documents and publications

Risk-informed development: Why it matters

This publication covers adopting a risk-informed development (RID) perspective as crucial to safeguard development gains, foster resilience, and leave no one behind.
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Learning from past shocks to scale up disaster and climate resilience in Algeria

A study titled “Diagnostic on Climate and Disaster Risk Management in Algeria” provides the country disaster and climate risk profile, estimates the macro-economic impacts of disasters, and evaluates Algeria’s current disaster risk management efforts.
World Bank, the
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Reflections on Nepal’s resilience: Journey of a nation rocked by earthquake nine years ago

Public education, improving warning systems & integrating disaster risk reduction into policy frameworks have been the focus.
Down To Earth
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Exploring heat risk adaptation governance: A case study of the UK

This paper assesses the state of heat risk governance in the UK through an analysis of the Adverse Weather and Health Plan (AWHP) launched in 2023, which replaces the former Heatwave Plan (HWP) for England.
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State of the climate in Asia 2023

This report provides the status of key climate indicators and latest data and information on impacts, risks and policy from United Nations agencies.
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How a climate conundrum at the heart of the Pacific is challenging disaster preparedness in Australia

This article covers the ongoing enigma at the heart of the Pacific of confounding predictability of climate extremes at seasonal and longer timescales.
Risk Frontiers Holdings Pty Ltd

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