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Challenges for resilience policy and practice

OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE (ODI)

Resilience has a long history but has emerged in the past decade to become a more widely adopted concept to underpin policies and projects, particularly in international development contexts. This working paper summarises some of the challenges and debates based on a review of recent academic literature.

Risk modeling for appraising named peril index insurance products: A guide for practitioners

This guide was written to introduce a wider audience of insurers to index insurance as a risk management tool for agriculture. Index insurance, which is a relatively recent innovation, has exciting potential for addressing the need for agricultural insurance in developing economies. 

Evaluating complex programmes: Reflections on realism and resilience

BRACED

This paper considers the challenges faced and lessons learned in the mid-term review of BRACED projects to provide insights into using realist principles to evaluate complex, resilience-building programmes in an international development context.

Cross-border concerns, shared strategies

Why transboundary cooperation matters in preventing industrial accidents

UNITED NATIONS ECONOMIC COMMISSION FOR EUROPE (UNECE)

It discusses how the UNECE Industrial Accidents Convention (referred to as The Convention) can help to prevent industrial accidents, especially those with transboundary effects, and to prepare for and respond to such accidents if they occur. 

Flood resilience in Italy: Acting together

SWISS REINSURANCE COMPANY (SWISS RE)

This report describes a probabilistic, high-resolution flood model for Italy developed by Swiss Re. The model simulates the interaction of fluvial with pluvial flood loss generation and can be used to assess accumulation risk and price reinsurance treaties and facultative (or single) risks. It was used to assess the large loss potential from pluvial and fluvial flood for both the regions of Italy and the country as a whole.

A summary of risk areas and scenario analyses 2012-2015

SWEDISH CIVIL CONTINGENCIES AGENCY (MSB)

This report presents an overview and synthesis of the 14 scenario analyses conducted as part of Sweden national risk and capability assessment between 2012 and 2015.

Public empowerment: Guidelines for engaging the public in crisis management

PUBLIC EMPOWERMENT POLICIES FOR CRISIS MANAGEMENT (PEP)

The aim of this guide is to help managers and communication experts develop strategies for empowering people in the different phases of the safety chain.  The first part of the guide is based on some desk studies and an online international expert questionnaire.

Index for risk management INFORM concept and methodology report

Version 2017

EUROPEAN COMMISSION (EC)

This is the fourth report of the revised INFORM’s concept and methodology. INFORM is a composite indicator that identifies countries at risk of humanitarian crisis and disaster that would overwhelm national response capacity.

Reaching resilience: Handbook resilience 2.0 for aid practitioners and policymakers

This handbook is designed to encourage thinking and provide insights and ideas about how to design well-integrated, step-by-step actions and strategies to foster resilience at the local level. The handbook aims to support students and young professionals in their Disaster Risk Reduction, Climate Change Adaptation and Poverty Reduction related work and secondly to acquaint policymakers involved in these three domains with the integration issue and help them to take a resilience 2.0 approach into their (present or future) daily work.

Safer, stronger, smarter: A guide to improving school natural hazard safety

FEDERAL EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCY (FEMA)

This guide provides up-to-date, authoritative information that schools can use to develop a comprehensive strategy for addressing natural hazards.

Roadmap: Public empowerment policies for crisis management

PUBLIC EMPOWERMENT POLICIES FOR CRISIS MANAGEMENT (PEP)

The roadmap ‘Public empowerment policies for crisis management’ aims to chart directions for further research and implementation supporting human resilience. Aimed at policymakers and researchers, it reports core problems and gaps identified based on research conducted by the teams that composed the international consortium of the project Public Empowerment Policies for Crisis Management (PEP).




It assesses the current level of development of public empowerment policies across Europe, examines this variation in different countries, and addresses the need for sharing best practices and guideliness and lowering barriers in policymaking and further research.

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Atlas of the human planet 2017: Global exposure to natural hazards

The Atlas of the Human Planet 2017. Global Exposure to Natural Hazards summarizes the global multi-temporal analysis of exposure to six major natural hazards: earthquakes, volcanoes, tsunamis, floods, tropical cyclone winds, and sea level surge. The exposure focuses on human settlements assessed through two variables: the global built-up and the global resident population.

Resilience and resource efficiency in cities

UNITED NATIONS ENVIRONMENT PROGRAMME (UNEP)

This report looks at the relationship between building the resilience of cities in the face of global environmental change, and increasing the resource efficiency of cities to reduce their harmful impacts on the environment.

2017 Resilience index annual report

FM GLOBAL

The 2017 FM Global Resilience Index is an annual ranking of 130 countries and territories according to their enterprise resilience to disruptive events. Rankings are calculated as an equally weighted composite of 12 core drivers that affect the enterprise resilience of countries significantly and directly.

Annual disaster statistical review 2015: the numbers and trends

The 2015 annual review of disaster figures based on the EM-DAT database outlines information about the EM-DAT International Disaster Database, its definitions, criteria and content; asks: What did 2015 bring? How different was 2015?; and provides regional analysis on Africa, the Americas, Asia, Europe, and Oceania.