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.

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Colin Walch, University of California, Berkeley

Co-authored with Sabrina Stein, program manager at the Conflict Prevention and Peace Forum (CPPF)

Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has called on

Erik Kjaergaard, Disaster Risk Managment Specialist, Asian Development Bank

While international media provided extensive cover of the devastating flooding in Texas, triggered by tropical storm Harvey, a much larger

Maria van Veldhuizen, Communications Officer at REEEP

While there is a wealth of climate information available, many decision makers struggle to find what they really need to make informed decisions for a

Erin Biehl, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Last summer, I returned home from vacation to find a deck full of scorched plants—apparently they just couldn’t take the heat during Baltimore’s

David Britton, Met Office

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

Timothy Bouley, World Bank Group

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

Walter Kaelin, Nansen Initiative, the

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

In 2016, new disaster related displacements stood at 24.2

Rachel Westcott, Bushfire and Natural Hazards Cooperative Research Centre

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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