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DRR Community Voices

The DRR Community Voices share personal stories and perspectives from the disaster risk reduction trenches on reducing risk and building resilience.

  • Our posts from both practitioners and academics reach a global audience and can influence policy, practices and approaches.
  • We invite you to propose your own blog and submit it for review.
  • Most articles can be republished under CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO Deed.
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Kevin Blanchard, Executive Director, DRR Dynamics Ltd

The economic impacts of disasters on marginalised groups

Tomorrow is the International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction 2018 and the theme this year is focused on Target C of the Sendai Framework, reducing

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Katie Peters, Research Fellow, Overseas Development Institute

A turning point for disaster risk reduction: views from the Africa-Arab Conference on DRR

In a week when Cyclone Luban is heading towards Oman and Yemen and several US states have declared a state of emergency, the importance of

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Dale Dominey-Howes, University of Sydney

Including sexual and gender minorities in disaster risk reduction

While the media is largely silent on the experiences and needs of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) people following disasters

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Lindsay Ross

The financial sector responds to physical climate risks

Energy transition risk and physical climate risk both impact markets and companies. Transition risks are the potential large-scale impacts of rapidly decarbonizing our economies and energy systems.
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Joel Thomas, CEO, SPIN Global

A focal point for standardized assessment of regional disaster resilience

What is the most effective way to assess regional disaster resilience and measure progress?

Our research posits that every element of systems

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Shefali Juneja, University of Wollongong

Co-learning disaster resilience: A person-centred approach to engaging refugee narratives and practices of safety

Global displacement trends and recent calls to action, such as expressed in The New Urban Agenda 2016, the New York Declaration for Refugees and

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Danielle Charlton, University College London

Making maps that matter: four ways to improve hazard maps

When was the last time you used a map? To locate somewhere on campus, in an airport, or perhaps during fieldwork? Maps are something we often take for

Los Angeles Skid Row Homeless Point-in-Time Count. Photo by June L. Gin
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June L. Gin, Veterans Emergency Management Evaluation Center (VEMEC)

Including people experiencing homelessness in community disaster planning

For people experiencing homelessness, natural disasters such hurricanes, floods, and wildfires can not only threaten their daily survival, they can also hinder their efforts to find housing and employment.

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