19 Jan 2023
This ‘Warnings Briefing Note’ focuses on ‘The First Mile of Warnings: Placing people first’
Tags: Awareness material, Early Warning Systems
23 Mar 2015
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...
Tags: Report, Risk Assessment
27 Sep 2023
Climate change, rural to urban migration, an aging population, municipal task shifting, and changes in the way people volunteer – many forces will affect the risk landscape local disaster preparedness and emergency response actors will have to ...
Tags: Case Study, Report, Capacity Building for Disaster Risk Management, Climate Change Adaptation, Resilience and Disaster Risk Management