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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 Satterthwaite, Senior Fellow at the International Institute for Environment and Development, International Institute for Environment and Development

Urban risks: where are the top five biggest blind spots?

Whose lives are most at risk in urban areas of the global South – for instance from preventable diseases and disasters? And what are the most serious

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Eliot Christian, Consultant on the Common Alerting Protocol (CAP), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Getting public warnings to people online

To help disseminate public warnings, alerting authorities have long relied on commercial media, such as newswires, broadcast radio and television

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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

Saving lives in earthquakes

How many deaths have been caused by earthquakes throughout history? Tens of millions? Millions? Hundreds of thousands? The answer, perhaps, is close

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Shristi Vaidya, Disaster Risk Researcher, Delta Innovation BV

People-centred Early Warning Systems are vital to reduce disaster risk

We often talk about communication and Early Warning Systems (EWS), the development of which normally moves in a top-down manner, from global to

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Robert Glasser, United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction

Three ways of communicating to stop disasters happening

This past March, Peru was hit by devastating floods. Media reports led with death tolls and declarations of states of emergency. People volunteered

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Frank Thomalla, Senior Research Fellow, Stockholm Environment Institute

Lessons from disaster risk reduction in Indonesia

Indonesia is amongst the countries in the world with the highest risk from environmental hazards and climate change impacts. Following the devastating

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Jerry Velasquez, Director of the Division of Mitigation and Adaptation, Green Climate Fund

The challenges and opportunities in meeting the seven global targets of the Sendai Framework

For the first time in disaster risk reduction, the new global blueprint for reducing disaster risks – the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction

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Steven Ramage, Head of External Relations, Group on Earth Observations, Group on Earth Observations

The role of open earth observation in disaster response

The Group on Earth Observations (GEO) coordinates Earth observations for a changing planet characterized by extreme weather events such as droughts

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