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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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David Britton, Met Office

Putting people and their communities at the centre of early warning systems

Whilst there may be similarities, weather warnings from around the globe rarely look the same and have often been developed in different ways. The

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Timothy Bouley, World Bank Group

Linking health, environment, and climate to reduce disaster risk

Authors: Timothy Bouley, Catherine Machalaba (EcoHealth Alliance), Cristina Romanelli (UN Convention on Biological Diversity), Chadia Wannous (UN

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Walter Kaelin, Nansen Initiative, the

The importance of including disaster displacement provisions in disaster risk reduction planning and practice

Disaster displacement ranks among the biggest humanitarian challenges of the 21st century.

In 2016, new disaster related displacements stood at 24.2

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Rachel Westcott, Bushfire and Natural Hazards Cooperative Research Centre

What comes first? Building DRR by cultivating a preceding culture of preparedness as a ‘social norm’

Climate change is the biggest public health risk of the 21st century, and threatens to adversely affect many aspects of public and environmental

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Cecilia Sorensen

Is the future just one long hot summer?

By C Sorensen, E. Calvello-Hynes, J Lemery

Global climate change is predicted to increase the frequency and impact of natural disasters and

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Ali Caglar Akgungor, AKUT Search and Rescue Association

Ensuring disability inclusiveness in a disaster preparedness program (EDUCEN project Istanbul case study experience)

How do we ensure that disaster preparedness messages reach all their intended audiences? How do we account for the needs of elderly people, children

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Marie Aronsson-Storrier, Research Fellow in Global Law and Disasters, and the 2017/18 Programme Director for the LLM/MSc Global Crisis, Conflict, and Disaster Management, at the University of Reading., University of Reading

Exploring the role of international law in disaster risk reduction

In what ways can law support efforts of preventing, mitigating and preparing for disasters? To what extent does law succeed in ensuring the existence

Mindfulness Sustainability Framework
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Christine Wamsler, Professor of Sustainability Science at Lund University Centre for Sustainability Science, Lund University

How mindfulness can help the shift towards a more sustainable society

Mindfulness is often summed up with the phrase “be here now”. We can all be mindful; it’s rooted in our consciousness, and it’s associated with greater emotional intelligence. Neuroscientists think that mindfulness can literally rewire our brains.

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