Documents and publications

Environmental issue report, no. 35.

This report brings together information about natural disasters and technological accidents that have occurred across Europe in recent years and their impacts on the environment and society.  The report concentrates on

Volume 2 centres on the analysis and management of risk in society, in international business and multinationals, and globally. The ’acceptability’ of risk to an individual depends on the context, whether the larger society or in, say, a corporate

This second edition confronts a further ten years of ever more expensive and deadly disasters since the book was first published and discusses disaster not as an aberration, but as a signal failure of mainstream 'development'.

Part I provides two

This book is a unique compilation of state-of-the-art vulnerability assessment and is essential reading for academics, students, policy makers, practitioners, and anybody else interested in understanding the fundamentals of measuring vulnerability. It is

Does development expose more people to disasters? What is the cost of failing to prepare? The tenth edition of the World Disasters Report argues that risk reduction is an essential condition for sustainable development. It examines preparedness and

The key to understanding the causes of disasters and mitigating their impacts is the concept of ’vulnerability’. Mapping vulnerability analyses this concept as central to the way we understand disasters and their magnitude and impact. Written and edited

A fully illustrated book Real Risk offers perspectives, case studies and analysis on disaster risk reduction and mitigation in the light of major natural disasters that have occurred since the publication of Know Risk in early 2005. It brings together the

This report has been prepared in response to General Assembly Resolution 60/15 of 2 February 2006 on “Strengthening emergency relief, rehabilitation, reconstruction and prevention in the aftermath of the Indian Ocean tsunami disaster”. The report provides a status update of the recovery process at the 18-month mark and seeks to identify some of the key emerging challenges and lessons learned in efforts to build back better. It examines successes and challenges in tsunami response, focusing on long-term recovery.