Risk identification and assessment

Community voices from around the world today urged disaster management and climate change adaptation practitioners to take greater account of indigenous knowledge and expertise in building community resilience to withstand natural hazards.

This book provides an overview of knowledge and practice in this multidisciplinary field of ecosystems management and disaster risk reduction (DRR). The contributors, professionals from the science and disaster management communities around the world

Representatives from 35 governments who met with business executives and senior experts at the 4th Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction, have issued a call "to develop nationally agreed standards for hazard risk assessments especially of critical infrastructure (including schools, health centers, electricity and water supply systems, nodal ITC centres, road and transport systems) by 2015."

The inventor of the world's first interactive digital globe that graphically depicts the vulnerability of our planet to disasters today challenged global policymakers to show more leadership in tackling the growing risks facing populations worldwide.

Senior government officials from developing small island states and climate change experts have warned of a massive increase in human, economic and material losses in these countries if risk reduction measures are not taken urgently to mitigate the impacts of major hazards and climate change.

WMO has a booth at the Global Platform to showcase initiatives, projects and tools on early warning systems and disaster risk reduction. Throughout the Global Platform, senior WMO experts will take part in high-level meetings, plenaries, and feature events...

Leading figures from the private sector said today they were ready to "come in from the cold" and play a stronger leading role to reduce disaster risk.

El Gobierno de la República invertirá 600 millones de lempiras para reducir el riesgo a desastres a nivel nacional y en comunidades vulnerables de 20 municipios comprendidos en la región del Valle de Sula, por medio del Proyecto Gestión de Riesgos de Desastres (PGRD), coordinado por COPECO...