Pathways for Transformation: Disaster risk management to enhance development goals

Pelling, 2014 Pelling, Mark (ed.). 2014. Pathways for Transformation: Disaster risk management to enhance development goals. Background Paper prepared for the 2015 Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction. Geneva, Switzerland: UNISDR. This report offers a basic analytical framework to move from abstract discussion of development pathways to specific actions and responsibilities on the ground. …

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Who needs loss data? Background Paper prepared for the 2015 Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction

University of South Carolina, 2014 University of South Carolina. 2014. Who needs loss data? Background Paper prepared for the 2015 Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction. Geneva, Switzerland: UNISDR. This paper provides an overview of the loss data landscape in the United States. It outlines the various organizational efforts for collecting and disseminating loss …

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Disaster Risk: A Future Agenda for Integrative Science

UKDC-Resilience is a consortium of four international centres of excellence on hazards, risk and resilience research, all located in the UK: The Cabot Centre, University of Bristol; The Institute of Hazards, Risk and Resilience, Durham University; The Centre for Integrated Research on Risk and Resilience, King’s College London, and The Institute for Risk and Disaster …

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IRDR releases Newsletter Vol. 6 No. 1

In this issue of the IRDR newsletter, we feature IRDR in major events such as the Tokyo Conference on International Study for Disaster Risk Reduction and Resilience,  negotiations towards the post-2015, and regional preparations for 3rd WCDRR. This issue also covers the Working Groups Activities (AIRDR, DATA, FORIN and RIA), IRDR International Centres of Excellence …

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AIRDR publishes Transformative Development and Disaster Risk Management

Gall, M., S. L. Cutter, and K. Nguyen (2014). Transformative Development and Disaster Risk Management (IRDR AIRDR Publication No. 4). Beijing: Integrated Research on Disaster Risk. The concept of transformation originated in the human dimensions of global change discourse and centred on the transformation of settlement patterns, technology, communications, economies and energy (Grunwald 2014), and …

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AIRDR publishes Governance in Disaster Risk Management

Gall, M., S. L. Cutter, and K. Nguyen (2014). Governance in Disaster Risk Management (IRDR AIRDR Publication No. 3). Beijing: Integrated Research on Disaster Risk. Disaster risk governance has traditionally been fragmented between local, state, and national entities and between sectors, and compartmentalised in highly variable bureaucratic structures. Risk governance is mostly viewed through the …

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AIRDR publishes Incentives for Disaster Risk Management

Gall, M., S. L. Cutter, and K. Nguyen (2014). Incentives for Disaster Risk Management (IRDR AIRDR Publication No. 2). Beijing: Integrated Research on Disaster Risk. This literature review summarises our current scientific knowledge on incentives for disaster risk management: how it has evolved over the past decades, what we know about incentives, their influence on …

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Integrated research on disaster risk: Is it really integrated?

International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction Volume 12, June 2015, Pages 255–267 Melanie Gall, Khai Hoan Nguyen, Susan L. Cutter Abstract This paper traces the development of peer-reviewed, integrated research on disaster risk over the past fifteen years to assess the current state of knowledge. We define integrated research as those studies that engage multiple …

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AIRDR publishes Guide to Assessing Integrated Research on Disaster Risk

Integrated Research on Disaster Risk. (2014). Guide to Assessing Integrated Research on Disaster Risk (IRDR AIRDR Publication No. 1). Beijing: Integrated Research on Disaster Risk. The need for integrated research follows from the complexity of disaster risk, which cannot be understood comprehensively by a single discipline alone. Integrated research is the foundation and the evidentiary …

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