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Strengthening urban resilience in Morocco : Building capacity and identifying risk to better...
Building urban resilience in Morocco at both the local and national level has helped to increase the application of risk information in public policy and investment planning, informed government policy and strategies, and improved performance of national and city agencies in the quality and...
Flood Resilience Measurement for Communities: Using online data collection
As part of ongoing enhancements to the Flood Resilience Measurement for Communities (FRMC) and based on feedback received from implementing organizations, we have added a functionality that allows you to conduct ‘online surveys’ as part of your data collection process to measure community flood...
Knowledge management practices in disaster management: Systematic review
Examples of knowledge management (KM) practices are common in a disaster context. However, disaster management is a system with many components, and it is not clear how KM practices can be applied in all major phases of disaster management cycle. In this context, this research will answer the...
Urban Resilience
GIDRM developed different inputs contributing to the discussion on urban resilience among city representatives/decision makers and sector specialists. To strengthen urban resilience the studies conducted included several recommendations.
An Open Data and Citizen Science Approach to Building Resilience to Natural Hazards in a...
The citizen science approach has gained momentum in recent years. It can enable both experts and citizen scientists to co-create new knowledge. Better understanding of local environmental, social, and geographical contexts can help in designing appropriate plans for sustainable development....
Scenario-based risk analytics for managing cascading disasters
South Asia is facing an increasing complex and expanding disaster riskscape- one of the highest in the Asia Pacific region. Each year, people in the subregion suffer from various climate hazards such as floods, droughts, tropical cyclones, and heat waves. This is continuing this year in the...
World Disasters Report 2020: Come heat or high water
Although we are living in a climate crisis, we don’t have to accept climate disasters as inevitable. The World Disasters Report argues that societies, humanitarians, donors and others can make a difference now, by becoming more “climate smart”. This means that we need to get our priorities...
Guidance notes for highly effective Disaster Risk Financing
At the Centre for Disaster Protection, we spend a lot of time considering what ‘good’ disaster risk financing (DRF) looks like in practice. Some habits have been more neglected than others, and we have released a range of guidance notes for the most overlooked. These aim to provide very practical...
Just add water: a landscape analysis of climate finance for water
This landscape analysis of climate finance for water programmes will help us establish where donors and national governments need to consider re-prioritising climate investment, and look at what barriers we need to break through to unlock much-needed investment. The findings in the report...
Scenario-based risk analytics for managing cascading disasters
The COVID-19 pandemic has made it clear that biological and natural hazards intersect with each other and increase the complexity of overall disaster impacts on populations and economies. But disaster management and risk analytics have been slow to capture the intersections of natural and...
Hazard + Hope
'Hazard + Hope' is being created to inform and inspire adaptation and resilience to a changing climate. Rather than focusing solely on the doom and gloom of the hazard and the negative consequences that can ensue, we're highlighting a range of spatial, social, environmental & economic...
Information governance for disaster risk reduction
This information governance (IG) guidance targets disaster risk management (DRM) and disaster risk reduction (DRR) leaders and practitioners in government agencies at the national and subnational level and across sectors, horizontally and vertically. This includes government collaboration...
The case for value chain resilience
The paper provides a perspective on resilience as both an expansion and complement of risk analysis. It examines applications of both concepts within current value chain literature and within supply chain literature that may inform potential directions or pitfalls for future value chain...
Weather Stations, Women Champions and Water Management: Changing the Face of Early Warning in...
Disasters driven by the climate crisis are increasingly impacting lives and livelihoods and are predicted to reduce Cambodia’s GDP by 9.8% by 2050 even under an optimistic scenario1 . In response to these challenges, the Royal Government of Cambodia is building a comprehensive digital solution...
Zurich Flood Resilience Alliance letter to Development Bank Chairs
The Zurich Flood Resilience Alliance's call for Development Banks to consider the importance of long term climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction while developing plans for responding to and recovering from the Covid-19 pandemic.
When COVID-19 and Natural Hazards Collide: Building Resilient Infrastructure in South Asia
Countries in South Asia, before COVID-19, were already battling critical socioeconomic vulnerabilities and a deluge of extreme weather events brought about by a changing climate. The pandemic has demonstrated how disasters can cascade and converge to threaten lives, livelihoods, and economic...
Managing Heavy Rainfall with Green Infrastructure: An Evaluation in Pittsburgh's Negley Run...
RAND researchers use simulation modeling to evaluate present and future risks in Negley Run watershed in Pittsburgh from sewer overflows and flooding given future rainfall uncertainty. The authors then evaluate proposals for a phased series of green stormwater infrastructure (GSI)...
How Can Green Infrastructure Help to Manage Rainfall in an Urban Watershed?
he study described in this research brief shows how the challenges in managing the increasing volumes of stormwater flows in a complex urban environment can be effectively addressed by a mix of solutions. Focused on a key watershed in the city of Pittsburgh, this analysis shows that a centralized...
The Cost of Coastal Zone Degradation in Nigeria : Cross River, Delta and Lagos States
Nigeria is Africa’s richest economy. The country has a large population, abundant natural resources, and diverse cultures. Coastal areas are particularly unique: extending along more than 800 km, they are home to rich ecosystems, thriving industries, and booming opportunities. But these areas are...
Messy maps: Qualitative GIS representations of resilience
To include qualitative aspects of flood resilience, such as emotion, social connections and experience, into urban planning, we present a methodology incorporating innovative and experimental map visualisations of informal settlements. The concept of resilience in urban planning is often deployed...
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