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Disaster-related displacement risk: measuring the risk and addressing its drivers

This study reflects an awareness of the need to see disasters as primarily social, rather than natural, phenomena. This view acknowledges the fact that humans can act and take decisions to reduce the likelihood of a disaster occurring or, at the very least, to reduce their impacts and the levels of loss and damage associated […]

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Understanding Risks in an Evolving World – Emerging Best Practices in Natural Disaster Risk Assessment

This publication highlights some of the influential efforts—by technical specialists, institutions, and governments around the world—to create and communicate risk information faster and at lower cost, to improve the quality and transparency of risk information, and to enable more local engagement in the production of authoritative risk information than ever before. This report contains case studies spanning 40 countries that showcase emerging best

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IFRC Strategy on Violence Prevention, Mitigation and Response 2011-2020

This Strategy has been prepared by the IFRC to provide specific strategic directions to National Societies and their federation to support the strategic aims and enabling actions of the IFRC Strategy 2020, as each one of them relates to violence prevention, mitigation and response. The current document observes the following structure:– Part 1 is an introduction

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First page of a seminar report titled 'Disaster Risk Reduction: A Front Line of Defense Against Climate Change and Displacement,' from the Brookings-Bern Project on Internal Displacement and InterAction's Disaster Risk Reduction Working Group Joint Seminar, dated 10 October 2007. The page includes a Welcome and Introduction by Beth Ferris of the Brookings Institution and begins remarks by Peter Walker of the Feinstein International Center at Tufts University, with logos for Brookings and the Universität Bern at the top.

Disaster Risk Reduction: A Front Line Defense against Climate Change and Displacement

“Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) is a vital defense against climate change and displacement, particularly in the current context of increasing numbers of disaster-affected persons. In the last two decades, for example, an estimated 200 million people have been affected every year by natural disasters. A significant portion of the disaster-affected community is also disaster-displaced, making

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GAIN – Global Adaptation Index

The ND-GAIN Country Index, developed by the University of Notre Dame Global Adaptation Index (ND-GAIN), provides a comprehensive measure of a country’s vulnerability to climate change and other global challenges, alongside its readiness to improve resilience. By combining these two dimensions, the Index offers a clear, data-driven snapshot of where countries stand in terms of

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Global Risk Report 2015

10th edition of this Report from the World Economic Forum. It looks at a range risk trends in the context of ongoing political, economic, social, environmental, and technological challenges. Source: World Economic Forum, 2015 Global Risk Report 2015 Global Risks 2015

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Guide d’évaluation de la sécurité alimentaire

Ce guide pratique, publié par la Fédération internationale des Sociétés de la Croix-Rouge et du Croissant-Rouge en 2005, a été conçu pour aider les Sociétés nationales africaines à planifier et réaliser des évaluations de la sécurité alimentaire dans les contextes de catastrophes, de crises chroniques et d’urgence humanitaire. Il fournit une introduction accessible aux concepts

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