This paper discusses how empowering universities to educate students on climate change could create systems that continue to build countries’ capacities to tackle climate-related problems for decades to come.
This note outlines issues relating to flood insurance within the United Kingdom (UK) and the establishment of the Flood Re (flood re-insurance scheme) scheme by the Water Act and subsequent regulations. In the context of increasing flood risk and the need of flood insurance at reasonable cost, the UK government and insurance industry have come to a new agreement in 2015 (Flood Re) with the aims of reducing risks and continuying the traditional risk insurance tools to an extent.
This paper aims to discuss a variety of institutional, social and political considerations that must be managed to ensure that the results of a risk assessment effectively influence actions leading to reductions in natural hazard risk.
This report discusses cities’ resilience from economic, social, environmental and institutional perspectives. Ten case studies, including Antalya (Turkey), Belo Horizonte (Brazil), Bursa (Turkey), Cardiff (United Kingdom), Kobe (Japan), Kyoto (Japan), Lisbon (Portugal), Oslo (Norway), Ottawa (Canada) and Tampere (Finland) provide important examples of how cities can promote innovative policy actions to enhance their resilience.
This study draws lessons from the Fukushima Dai-Ichi disaster in Japan in March 2011 regarding technological countermeasures to radioactive contamination in order to improve responses to future radiological or nuclear contingencies.
The year 2015 was a landmark for UNISDR with the agreement of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030 at the Third UN World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction on 18 March 2015 in Sendai, Japan and its adoption by all Member States through General Assembly Resolution 69/284 in June 2015.
This guide offers a child-friendly version of the Sendai Framework. It was developed in consultation with children by the Children in a Changing Climate coalition (ChildFund Alliance, Plan International, Save the Children, UNICEF, and World Vision).
This document focuses on how recovery frameworks must be informed within a disaster-conflict nexus. How well conflict sensitivity is incorporated in a recovery frameowork, depends on how it achieves these criteria:
This report of the Overseas Development Institute, uses infographics to identify the key themes and emerging trends in resilience thinking and practice.
This publication explores the role of ecosystems and the environment in the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction and proposes a range of actions focused on integrated environmental and natural resource management approaches to disaster risk reduction, such as