Risk identification and assessment

The report "Natural Hazards, and Unnatural Disasters: the Economics of Effective Prevention", prepared by the World Bank in partnership with the United Nations and funded by the Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery, concludes that natural hazards often turn into disasters as a result of poor policies and practices, and examines ways to make prevention cost-effective.

This publication is a call to action for cities to address climate change. It presents information and practical case studies of what cities can do to respond to one of today's leading challenges in 12 key messages, including identify the city’s risks

The Guidance Notes on Assessment and Mitigation Planning for Risk Reduction (AMPRR) present general steps for assessment of schools and hospitals within the view of mitigation planning. Schools refers to all educational institutions and hospitals refers

En Bolivia, el alcalde de La Paz, informó que se requieren Bs 800 millones para atender las 36 áreas de alto riesgo de deslizamiento que fueron identificadas en el Mapa de Riesgos 2011...

The United Nations atomic agency’s 35-country board adopted a plan yesterday to strengthen global nuclear safety after Japan’s Fukushima accident six months ago, despite criticism from several states that the proposals had been watered down...

It is almost 20 years since the historic United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, held in Rio de Janeiro in June 1992, alerted Governments and citizens to critical human development issues and made specific demands of countries. Among the issues fuelling the discourse then, was the global sounding off on the depletion of world’s irreplaceable environmental resources.

En México, es urgente coordinar esfuerzos para establecer lineamientos y políticas públicas, orientadas a mitigar y prevenir daños ocasionados por desastres naturales...

A huge catalogue of old weather data, from the ships’ logs of historic voyages to World War I Royal Navy records, is being used for an international project to recreate the world’s past climate. 'This is a great example of citizen science and there’s still a huge amount of work to do, so we’re hoping more people will get involved.'...