Building scientific capacity in disaster risk reduction for sustainable development

Challenging disparities in capacity development for disaster risk reduction

Although capacity development has been identified as the means to substantially reduce global disaster losses, it is a challenge for external partners to facilitate the development of sustainable capacities for disaster risk reduction in disaster-prone countries. The purpose of this study is to investigate potential gaps between how leading professionals approach such capacity development and g...

Community-Based disaster risk Management towards Sustainable Development

Background and Purpose:With the rise of natural disasters, different societies have continually sought to discover solutions to control or minimize the damage caused by unexpected events and to actually manage disasters. In the past few decades, the need for social participation to reduce disasters has increased. The community-based disaster  risk management framework is growing. Therefore, thi...

Children capacity in disaster risk reduction: a call for action

isasters have various physical, psychological, social and economical effects on all age groups, particularly children who are more vulnerable than adults. In the aftermath of disasters, children, just like pregnant women, elderly and the disabled, are a special group with special needs. This is because they are at greater risk based on their specific physiological and psychological characterist...

Integrated Policy Making for Sustainable Development: Goal 6 and the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction

Making the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction work for sustainable mountain development

Mountain systems are very diverse and so is the pattern of natural hazards. Worldwide disaster databases show that associated human and economic losses are significant but vary greatly between and within mountain regions. Continued changes in climate, land use and socio-economic conditions are likely to lead to vastly altered mountain landscapes in the future, with associated implications for h...