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Canada: Student goes to UN to advocate for youth engagement in disaster risk reduction

A University of British Columbia student, Salina Dharamsi recently travelled to the UN to participate as one of the two youth representatives, in a multi-stakeholder debate focused on disaster risk reduction (DRR). She spoke about three key ways that youth can be better engaged in DRR...

University of British Columbia
A University of British Columbia student, Salina Dharamsi recently travelled to the UN to participate as one of the two youth representatives, in a multi-stakeholder debate focused on disaster risk reduction (DRR). She spoke about three key ways that youth can be better engaged in DRR...
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Places, people and perpetuity: community capacities in ecologies of catastrophe

ACME: An International E-Journal for Critical Geographies, volume 9, issue 2, 2010:

This paper seeks to go beyond some assumed practice—such as viewing vulnerability as a contemporary snapshot of a group of people in a specific place—in an attempt to

University of British Columbia
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council
ACME: An International E-Journal for Critical Geographies, volume 9, issue 2, 2010:
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Design for survival coordination of critical infrastructure interdependencies to maximize disaster survival

At present each infrastructure knows very well what to do when problems occur within its system: how to readjust operation while repairs are being made. Risk analysis and reliability studies are done internally on each infrastructure, but do not consider

University of British Columbia
Joint Infrastructure Interdependencies Research Program
At present each infrastructure knows very well what to do when problems occur within its system: how to readjust operation while repairs are being made.

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The Sendai Framework Voluntary Commitments (SFVC) online platform allows stakeholders to inform the public about their work on DRR. The SFVC online platform is a useful toolto know who is doing what and where for the implementation of the Sendai Framework, which could foster potential collaboration among stakeholders. All stakeholders (private sector, civil society organizations, academia, media, local governments, etc.) working on DRR can submit their commitments and report on their progress and deliverables.

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