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Apr 29, 2024 · Over the past decade, the World Bank has emerged as the global leader in disaster risk management, supporting client countries to assess exposure to hazards and address disaster risks. In today’s unpredictable world, concerns about pandemics, natural hazards, climate variability, economic fluctuations, and job security are ever-present.
- What Is A Disaster?
- What Is Risk?
- What Is Resilience?
A disaster arises when extreme natural events (such as storms, tsunamis, earthquakes, flooding or volcanic eruptions) but also technological, man-made or other hazards coincide with a vulnerable society. Whether an extreme event turns into a disaster depends on social, ecological, economic and political factors or processes in a society. In general...
In the context of DRM, risk is created from the interaction between an extreme event and a vulnerable population, ecosystem or infrastructure. Risk is determined as a function of hazard, exposure, vulnerability and capacity.
DRM is considered an essential aspect of resilience, which refers to the capacity to withstand extreme events and cope with their consequences. However, resilience is a popular term, which finds an application in many fields and can therefore be defined quite differently. In the context of DRM and from the perspective of German Development Cooperat...
For information on Canada's Platform or general membership , please contact Canada's Platform Secretariat at: ps.drr-rrc.sp@canada.ca. Phone: 613-991-9748. Date modified: 2023-01-27. Outlines strategies and activities relating to the mitigation aspect of emergency management and Canada's Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction.
May 11, 2023 · It provides a national picture of disaster risks facing Canada, and the existing measures and resources in our emergency management systems to address them. The report released today examines disaster risks from three of the most concerning hazards facing Canadians - earthquakes, wildland fires, and floods, with a section on the cascading effects of pandemics like COVID-19 on these three hazards.
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The policy objective of anticipating and reducing risk is called disaster risk reduction (DRR). Although often used interchangeably with DRR, disaster risk management (DRM) can be thought of as the implementation of DRR, since it describes the actions that aim to achieve the objective of reducing risk. Adapted from UNISDR Global Assessment ...
Disaster Risk Reduction is aimed at preventing new and reducing existing disaster risk and managing residual risk, all of which contribute to strengthening resilience and therefore to the achievement of sustainable development". The UNDRR definition further annotates that “disaster risk reduction is the policy objective of disaster risk management, and its goals and objectives are defined in ...
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The Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015–2030 outlines seven targets and four priorities for action to prevent new and reduce existing disaster risks: (i) Understanding disaster risk; (ii) Strengthening disaster risk governance to manage disaster risk; (iii) Investing in disaster reduction for resilience, and; (iv) Enhancing disaster preparedness for effective response, and to ...
