It is just over three years since United Nations Member States adopted the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030, the global plan to reduce disaster losses, which is pivotal to the ...
The Pampanga Provincial Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (PDRRMC) has approved the realignment of more than P60 ...
The United Nations system, coordinated by the United Nations Office for Disaster Reduction, has guidelines for nations and municipalities to manage natural hazard risk. Foremost among these, in many ...
Climate-induced hazards exert uneven impacts on communities. However, conventional risk models rarely consider these disparities, which are critical for informing risk reduction decisions. Instead, ...
Harnessing the collective capabilities of APRU universities for interdisciplinary research in disaster management, students attended talks by the professors from different universities and ...
Societal efforts to understand and mitigate threats posed by hazards are often informed by complex disaster risk models. Despite research demonstrating the disproportionate effects of disasters on ...
Teams rapidly completed a baseline assessment of pre-project preparedness and capacity, providing a benchmark for long-term project goals and accomplishments. Nearly 3,000 people have been trained in ...
The U.S. Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction is an outgrowth of the IDNDR, formally adopted by the United Nations General Assembly on December 22, 1989. The objective of the IDNDR is “to reduce ...
This International Day of Disaster Reduction, I was thinking about the theme of children and young people being partners in disaster risk reduction and how it applies to my own experience working in ...
The Code for Resilience global initiative connects technologists with mentors and sector specialists to create tech-based tools that help reduce disaster risk. Three teams won grand prizes for ...
A new phase of disaster preparedness education has been introduced in Dominica’s primary schools following the launch of the ...
is a senior science reporter covering energy and the environment with more than a decade of experience. She is also the host of Hell or High Water: When Disaster Hits Home, a podcast from Vox Media ...