Disaster Risk Reduction
How do we ensure we keep improving our Disaster Risk Reduction efforts, to minimise the impact of a disaster event when it occurs?
UN DRR Global Assessment Report (GAR)
The UN Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction (GAR) is the flagship report of the United Nations on worldwide efforts to reduce disaster risk. The GAR is published by the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR), and is the product of the contributions of nations, public and private disaster risk-related science and research, amongst others.
UN DRR PreventionWeb - a Knowledge Base for DRR
The UN DRR PreventionWeb website has a Knowledge Base, which can be filtered to search for the latest news and information about Disaster Risk Reduction.
The E4All initiative
The trend of increasing numbers of countries reporting the existence of multi-hazard early warning systems (MHEWS) has continued – the number has doubled since 2015 and increased to 101 countries as of March 2023...
Scenarios - a tool to understand and mitigate risk
The Lighthill Risk Network published in 2020 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.
Machine Learning to help reduce the impact of disasters
This article explains how the World Bank Group uses machine learning algorithms to collect better data, make more informed decisions, and, ultimately, save lives.
NASA Earth Science Applied Sciences
The NASA Applied Sciences Program helps people across the world use NASA data to solve big problems right here on Earth. NASA provides support and funding to help institutions and individuals make better decisions about our environment, food, water, health and safety.
Using data to manage crop disaster risk
How the FAO and international researchers have joined forces to create new tools to stay one step ahead of swarms of locusts in East Africa - and what it can teach us about using data and technology for disaster risk reduction.
How earth observation can support disaster risk reduction strategies
The Group on Earth Observations (GEO) Disaster Risk Reduction Working Group (DRR WG) is developing and implementing a coherent and crosscutting approach within GEO to advance the use of Earth observations (EO) in support of national and local disaster risk reduction.
The Earth Observatory Singapore
In Asia and in many other places around the world, growing populations increasingly intersect with natural hazards. The Risk group investigates this intersection.
Australian Disaster Resilience Knowledge Hub
This website, by the Australian Institute for Disaster Resilience, provides key guidance material developed by Australia's National Resilience Taskforce to support disaster risk reduction policy and practice in Australia.