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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 ...
Thomson Reuters Foundation

Agencies must work harder to incorporate Disaster Risk Reduction into aid and development programmes, RedR survey finds

Agencies and NGOs need to take greater steps to incorporate ‘Disaster Risk Reduction’ into their aid and development programmes, helping to save lives and reduce the devastating impacts of natural and ...
World Bank

Taking the risk out of using disaster risk profiles

Disaster risk profiles are critical tools that help leaders and disaster risk practitioners make informed decisions on managing disaster risk. National-level disaster risk profiles provide information ...
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 ...
World Bank

Strengthening Disaster Risk Management and Transport Infrastructure after a Disaster: The 2010 Haiti Post-Earthquake Experience

“People need to know exactly what they’re up against, so they can adjust and adapt their lives,” says Chandler. In addition, Haitian society as a whole benefits from the timely use of new tools to ...

NDRMF to pioneer Pakistan’s first Disaster Risk Insurance framework for climate proof resilience: Bilal Anwar

Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of National Disaster Risk Management Fund (NDRMF), Bilal Anwar has said that the Fund was evolving from a facilitating and funding entity to a catalytic fund leading on ...