Risk identification and assessment

Map Your School is an online platform allowing children to enter information about hazards and resources in and around their schools and community, this information is then displayed on an overview map allowing people to at a glance visualise hazards in the neighbourhood and to see quick guidance on how best to mitigate them, or areas to avoid...

'In the non-stationary environment caused by ocean warming, traditional approaches, which are solely based on analysing historical data, increasingly fail to estimate today’s hazard probabilities,' said Lead author of the study, Falk Niehorster from the Risk Prediction Initiative of the Bermuda Institute of Ocean Science...

PCM realiza talleres para fomentar inversión en gestión de desastres por parte de gobiernos locales. Se sensibiliza a autoridades municipales sobre la importancia y los beneficios de ejecutar obras de prevención...

FCCC/CP/2010/7/Add.1, Framework Convention on Climate Change,  Report of the Conference of the Parties on its sixteenth session, held in Cancun from 29 November to 10 December 2010, Decision 1/CP.16:

This outcome document presents a set of balanced

CNN in cooperation with The C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group and the Carbon Disclosure Project showcases how five major cities (Melbourne, Tokyo, Paris, Rio de Janeiro and Lagos) prepare for climate change related risks. The pages dedicated to each city show climate change related risks, impacts on locals, and the adaptation measures the local goverment has been taking...

The Country Assessment Reports for Cambodia, Indonesia, Lao PDR, Philippines and Viet Nam investigate the capacity of the national hydrological and meteorological services (NHMSs) and recommend improvements through a regional approach.

The leader of Fiji’s disaster-hit Western Division has pledged to forge an integrated cross-sectoral strategy to achieve a safer and more resilient future.

'I learned a lot of new things about practical tools for disaster risk reduction such as hazard mapping and capacity matrixes. Hearing experiences from other participants was particularly useful', says Mr. Jaap Vuijk, Disaster Risk Reduction Program Manager for Operation Mercy, Afghanistan...