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Displaying 35 of about 35 resultsWhen the world’s governments meet in Cancun this week, they will reaffirm their commitment to protecting their citizens from disasters.
Most will likely report to the United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction that they are well on their way towards achieving the first global disaster target of having in place national and local disas…
As an international humanitarian organisation committed to eradicating extreme poverty, disaster risk reduction (DRR) and resilience are both central to Concern Worldwide’s work. Concern has developed nine principles for incorporating DRR into community resilience. They are derived from results of a two-year research project examining Concer…
The Lighthill Risk Network recently published two reports on developing scenarios, one for the insurance industry and one for the DRR community. Co-founder Dickie Whitaker discusses how scenarios can help us understand the systemic nature of risk.
PreventionWeb – What are ‘scenarios’ and how do they draw on the traditional risk modelling and ris…
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The devastating tsunami in Indonesia, severe floods in Japan and ferocious wildfires in California and Europe illustrate it: disasters continue to wreak havoc across the world, causing damage to assets and infrastructure and putting hard-made gains in development on the line. Yet, we know surprisingly little about the real cost of…
Material impacts of climate change
Climate change has emerged as a prominent threat to the financial sector and international economies. According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI), the United States suffered 16 separate billion-dollar disasters, with a cum…