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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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Blog
Torill Tandberg

Managing industrial risks across borders

The COVID-19 pandemic is a stark reminder that borders cannot stop disasters. Viruses, ash clouds, radiation and chemical spills do not need passports

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Veronica Collins, European Institute for Gender Equality, The

How to reduce gender violence during the pandemic and beyond

The covid-19 crisis is an opportunity for governments to put in place lasting structures that protect women from violence.

As covid-19 has spread

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Costis Toregas, George Washington University

COVID-19: When a health crisis drives cyber risk

In recent weeks, stay-home COVID-19 mandates have pushed crowds of people to work from home, often for the first time. Workers have turned to

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Daniel Aldrich, Northeastern University

Cultivating social ties in the age of physical distancing

As I write this, the novel coronavirus has infected more than 1,400,000 people and killed 75,000 across the world. While many governments are seeking

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Interview
Dickie Whitaker

Interview: Scenarios, an effective tool to understand and mitigate risk

The Lighthill Risk Network recently published two reports on developing scenarios, one for the insurance industry and one for the DRR community. Co

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Kerry Bowman, University of Toronto

COVID-19 outbreak: How we deal with animals and the environment threatens human health

We must pay attention to the root causes of zoonotic diseases. The more we change the environment, the more likely we are to disrupt ecosystems and provide opportunities for diseases to emerge.
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Talal Waheed, Global Advisor DIDRR, CBM International

Reducing disaster risk for persons with disabilities in Haiti

By Talal Waheed and Oliver Neuschäfer – CBM International

Disasters not only cause tremendous loss – both in terms of human lives and their assets –

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Aaron Clark-Ginsberg, RAND Corporation

Moving beyond the ‘Multi-stakeholder’ buzzword

NGOs and governmental agencies rightly describe disaster risk reduction (DRR) as a ‘multi-stakeholder’ activity. Responding to disasters should

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