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The DRR Community Voices share personal stories and perspectives from the disaster risk reduction trenches on reducing risk and building resilience.

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Katie Peters, Senior Research Fellow, Overseas Development Institute

How can we lower disaster risk? Have a strategy, look for vulnerability and be accountable

When the world’s governments meet in Cancun this week, they will reaffirm their commitment to protecting their citizens from disasters.

Most will

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Toshihiro Sonoda, Senior Disaster Risk Management Specialist, World Bank, the

Making Waves in Resilience: Managing Water to Reduce Disaster Risk

What do you think of when you hear ‘water issues’? You may think of water supply, sanitation or even food security.

Water issues in fact vary from

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

Reducing risks in urban centres: think 'local, local, local'

Urban centres can be among the world's most healthy places to live and work – but many are among the least. How healthy they are is powerfully

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Vladimir Tsirkunov, Team Leader of the GFDRR's Hydromet Program, Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery, the

Partners in prediction: How international collaboration has changed the landscape of hydromet

Intense drought can devastate a country. Severe flooding can be catastrophic. Dealing with both at the same time? That’s just another day for many

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Ede Ijjasz-Vasquez, Senior Director for the World Bank Group’s Social, Urban, Rural and Resilience Global Practice, World Bank Group

Urban jungles in jeopardy

We may not know exactly what the world will look like in two decades, but we know this: it will be a world of cities.

Each year, urban areas are

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Sohanur Rahman, Founder & CEO, YouthNet for Climate Justice

Children, youth and DRR in Bangladesh

When it comes to climate change, Bangladesh is one of the most disaster-prone and vulnerable countries in the world. Climate change is amplifying its

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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

Islands and climate change: rhetoric and reality

The media, and even scientific publications, continue to be packed with rhetoric that low-lying islands will sink, drown, or disappear due the seas

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Karlee Johnson, Research Associate at the Stockholm Environment Institute’s Asia Centre in Bangkok, Stockholm Environment Institute-Asia Centre

Why disability inclusion matters in disaster risk reduction

Asia-Pacific, the world’s most disaster-prone region, is home to an estimated 650 million people with disabilities. People with disabilities are four

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