Knowledge Sharing in Disaster Risk Management Strategies: Sri Lankan Post-Tsunami Context

Effective lesson learning should reduce the risk of future disasters through well-informed mitigation and preparedness planning. Ensuring the availability and accessibility of accurate and reliable disaster risk information when required entails an efficient system for knowledge sharing. In this regard, an efficient disaster risk management knowledge system is important. This paper highlights the importance of knowledge and good practice sharing in disaster mitigation strategies with particular reference to post-tsunami reconstruction in the Sri Lankan context. Further, a knowledge base infrastructure is introduced, developed as part of a research aimed at increasing the effectiveness of disaster management by facilitating the sharing of appropriate knowledge and good practices. This will provide the opportunity to explore the link between disaster and development to mitigate future devastations.