Risk identification and assessment

A qualitative or quantitative approach to determine the nature and extent of disaster risk by analysing potential hazards and evaluating existing conditions of exposure and vulnerability that together could harm people, property, services, livelihoods and the environment on which they depend.

Latest Risk identification and assessment additions in the Knowledge Base

The project is part of a government initiative which is aiming to ensure that climate change risks are integrated into resilient island planning and that governments and communities are able to prioritize and implement climate change adaptation...
Minivan News
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'Without an effective plan to prepare for the risks from climate change the country may sleepwalk into disaster. This report represents an important first step in the process and demonstrates why the UK needs to take action to adapt now', reducing future costs...
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

This report outlines the UK Government’s views on the main issues raised in the Climate Change Risk Assessment (CCRA) Evidence Report, highlighting actions already in place to manage the risks identified in the CCRA, and outlining UK Government plans for

This Evidence Report provides an overview of climate change risks and opportunities based on the analyses described in the Sector Reports and other sources of information.

It is intended to provide information to policy makers on the risks and

With the aim to identify capacity gaps related to risk reduction in Gambia, understand desired capacities and to also propose recommendations on how these capacities can be achieved, the disaster risk reduction capacity assessment report was validated by NDMA...
Foroyaa Newspaper
'It's always dangerous to make predictions about El Nino, but it's safe to say we'll see one in the next three years.' 'It won't take a very strong El Nino to push temperatures above 2010'...
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
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'For severe droughts, we would need a mitigation plan. This presupposes the existence of a national drought risk map, forecasting and early warning systems and monitoring systems. It would be the data from these that would enable an effective response plan'...
Daily News, the
This PDNA report presents a quantitative estimation of the impacts of the drought in Kenya on socioeconomic development, and recommendations for recovery and long-term resilience-building.

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