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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The 4th edition of ARMOR underlines the importance of strengthening sustainable disaster resilience in Southeast Asia, and offers suggestions and improvements that can be made to existing approaches and initiatives.
Minh Tran and Dayoon Kim of SEI Asia reflect on their work in climate and disaster research to critique knowledge co-production and find ways for research, policy and action to be more equitable.
Stockholm Environment Institute
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Research highlights the need for sustained civil engagement and legislative interventions on two key issues: 1) the nuances of animal rescue and welfare; and 2) the strained resiliency of agricultural communities.
Conversation Media Group, the
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This report offers a deeper view into the results of OCHA's anticipatory action framework in Ethiopia and valuable lessons to improve its impact in the context of protracted and overlapping crises.
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This paper presents the results of a large-scale heat mitigation project in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
IFRC
This Handbook provides guidance on how to run an effective and inclusive legal review process, which harnesses the knowledge and experience of a broad range of actors and stakeholders to develop strong legal arrangements for disasters.
Two related but often confused topics play into a system architecture that mitigates against failure: high availability (HA) and disaster recovery (DR).
Open Access Government
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This initiative involves strengthening national early warning capabilities, linking systems to reach scale, and sustainable financing.

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