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The Relevance of Soft Infrastructure in Disaster Management and Risk Reduction

Susann Baez Ullberg is Senior Analyst of the Centre for Crisis Management Research and Training at the Swedish Defence University, Stockholm, Sweden.Jeroen Warner is Associate Professor at Wageningen ...
World Bank

Philippines: Speech for Disaster Risk and Crisis Management Forum

It’s an honor for me to open this international conference on climate change and disaster risk management. It is impressive to see such large participation in this conference from leaders and ...
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Everyday Risk: Obstacle or Opportunity for Disaster Risk Reduction?

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 ...
World Bank

The Frontline Scorecard – Diagnosing the disaster resilience of health systems

A new report by the Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery (GFDRR) presents a tool for conducting an initial broad-based assessment of the resilience of a country’s health system to ...
The Conversation

You can’t talk about disaster risk reduction without talking about inequality

Dale Dominey-Howes receives funding from the Australian Research Council, the Global Resilience Partnership and State and Federal disaster management sources. A growing body of post-disaster research ...