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The Relevance of Soft Infrastructure in Disaster Management and Risk Reduction

Susann Baez Ullberg is Senior Analyst of the Centre for Crisis Management Research and Training at the Swedish Defence University, Stockholm, Sweden.Jeroen Warner is Associate Professor at Wageningen ...
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Everyday Risk: Obstacle or Opportunity for Disaster Risk Reduction?

The United Nations system, coordinated by the United Nations Office for Disaster Reduction, has guidelines for nations and municipalities to manage natural hazard risk. Foremost among these, in many ...
The Conversation

You can’t talk about disaster risk reduction without talking about inequality

Dale Dominey-Howes receives funding from the Australian Research Council, the Global Resilience Partnership and State and Federal disaster management sources. A growing body of post-disaster research ...
The Conversation

Why political will is important to reduce risks of disaster

Senior Lecturer, Humanitarian Emergency and Disaster Management, College of Indigenous Futures, Arts and Society, Charles Darwin University The United Nations’ Sendai Framework for disaster risk ...
HelpAge International

HelpAge launches Disaster Risk and Age Index at World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction

We’re launching the first Disaster Risk and Age Index at the Third UN World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction in Sendai, 14-18 March. The Index ranks 190 countries across the world on the disaster ...
HelpAge International

Age-inclusive disaster risk reduction: A toolkit

This toolkit provides practical information, tools, formats and examples which help in making any DRR intervention inclusive. It includes ageing policies and frameworks, age-inclusion in risk ...