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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The following articles can be republished under CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO Deed.

Cecilia Sorensen

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

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

Ali Caglar Akgungor, AKUT Search and Rescue Association

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

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

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

Christine Wamsler, Professor of Sustainability Science at Lund University Centre for Sustainability Science, Lund University
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.
Fadi Hamdan, Disaster Risk Management Centre

The Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction (SFDRR) highlights the need for collating human and economic disaster losses by the year 2020, using

Siddharth Narayan, Postdoctoral Scholar in Flood Risk Modelling at the University of California Santa Cruz and The Nature Conservancy

The world’s coastlines face increasing risks from flooding and storm surge. Nature can reduce that risk. A new report reviews new and emerging

Ilan Kelman, Reader in Risk, Resilience and Global Health at University College London, England and Professor II at the University of Agder, Kristiansand, Norway, University College London

After a disaster, we often hear about the need to bounce back, to return to normal, and to restore the pre-disaster state. How sensible is this?

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Aaron Clark-Ginsberg, Postdoctoral Researcher at Stanford University, Stanford University

I worked as Concern Worldwide’s disaster risk reduction documentation officer from 2012-2014, and travelled to Bangladesh to review Concern’s

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