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Friday, 27 March 2015

Are natural disasters on the rise?
By Dale Dominey-Howes

Thursday, 26 March 2015

Every little helps: Microinsurance as disaster risk management tool after Typhoon Haiyan
By Julia Graham

Wednesday, 25 March 2015

Ten things to know about the Sendai disaster risk reduction deal
By Megan Rowling

Tuesday, 24 March 2015

Disaster-related displacement: time to put knowledge into action
By Alfredo Zamudio & Shervin Tadi

Tuesday, 24 March 2015

We leave Sendai with a new global deal on disaster risk, but does it go far enough?
By Emily Wilkinson

Tuesday, 24 March 2015

Will the UN's disaster risk framework withstand a changing climate?
By Camilla Born

Thursday, 19 March 2015

Managing disaster risks can bring other benefits, even if catastrophe never strikes
By Tom Tanner

Thurssday, 19 March 2015

Underfunded, underprepared, underwater? European cities at risk
By Rosalind Cook and Nick Mabey

Thursday, 19 March 2015

Fifteen resilience-building action points for 2015 and the 15 years beyond
By Loy Rego

Thursday, 19 March 2015

Disaster risk and climate threats: taking action to create better financial solutions
By Olivier Mahul

Thursday, 19 March 2015

Feeding a warmer, riskier world
By José Graziano da Silva

Thursday, 19 March 2015

Ideathon: Code for Resilience mixes tech and disaster risk experts to spark innovation
By Keiko Saito

Wednesday, 18 March 2015

Steps to reducing disaster risk in your country 50% by 2030
By Niels Holm-Nielsen

Wednesday, 18 March 2015

The science of managing risk
By Dave Britton

Wednesday, 18 March 2015

Climate Just – a new website with mapping tool to understand climate disadvantage
By Katharine Knox

Wednesday, 18 March 2015

Nine ways to measure disaster resilience better
By Aditya Bahadur and Emma Lovell

Wednesday, 18 March 2015

Why Sink When You Can Swim? Engaging Small and Medium Enterprises in Disaster Risk Reduction
By Prim Yuktadatta

Wednesday, 18 March 2015

We need a seismic shift in thinking on finance to tackle disaster risk
By Charlene Watson and Jan Kellett

Tuesday, 17 March 2015

Cities Must Plan for Climate Disasters
By Jim Jarvie, Anna Brown & Kimberly Junmookda

Tuesday, 17 March 2015

Why should we invest in children? Passive victims or agents of change?
By Jessica Cooke

Tuesday, 17 March 2015

Are Global Economic Losses From Natural Hazards Increasing?
By Caroline McMullan

Tuesday, 17 March 2015

Reducing climate risk makes good business sense
By Emily Farnworth

Monday, 16 March 2015

Systems integration of human, ecological systems and economics in taking action on disasters, development and climate change
By Peter Head

Monday, 16 March 2015

Better Late than Never: Integrating Mental Health & Psychosocial Support into Disaster Risk Reduction
By Ananda Galappatti

Sunday, 15 March 2015

The disaster reality that must change
By Rachel Kyte

Saturday, 14 March 2015

My motivation for keeping schools safe
By Peuvchenda Bun

Saturday, 14 March 2015

Vanuatu’s impassioned plea at Sendai – why the world needs to take bold action on disaster risk reduction
By Ben Murphy

Saturday, 14 March 2015

Now is the time to strengthen disaster risk reduction in East Asia and the Pacific
By Axel van Trotsenburg

Saturday, 14 March 2015

Challenging innovators to find new ways to make disaster risk information accessible to all
By Alanna Simpson

Saturday, 14 March 2015

The importance of science and technology in the post-2015 framework
By Rishiraj Dutta

Saturday, 14 March 2015

How Migration Reduces Disaster Risk
By Lorenzo Guadagno

Saturday, 14 March 2015

How would your country recover from disaster?
By Raja Rehan Arshad

Saturday, 14 March 2015

Disasters, the disadvantaged and the visually impaired
By Nagar M Verma

Saturday, 14 March 2015

Reducing disaster risk for better health
By Rick Brennan

Friday, 13 March 2015

A Global Strategy for Disaster Risk
By Ban Ki-moon

Friday, 13 March 2015

How can the world better prepare for natural disasters?
By Margareta Wahlström

Friday, 13 March 2015

The World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction
By Mary Robinson and Gro Harlem Brundtland

Friday, 13 March 2015

Climate Change and Cyclones: A Search for Adaptation
By Sandra Ivanov

Friday, 13 March 2015

Failure to link up with other global agreements in 2015 could spell disaster for new resilience framework
By Tom Mitchell

Friday, 13 March 2015

Windows of opportunity for change
By Kilian Murphy

Thursday, 12 March 2015

The impact of disasters on the marginalised, impoverished and disadvantaged
By Jason von Meding

Wednesday, 11 March 2015

It’s time to tackle disaster risk through a coalition of the willing
By Tadateru Konoé

Tuesday, 10 March  2015

Getting Disaster Resilience Right
By Shamshad Akhtar

Tuesday, 10 March 2015

Engaging flood-prone communities in DRR through participatory decision-making

Tuesday, 10 March  2015

Reducing the impact of natural disasters
By Carmen van Heese

Tuesday, 10 March 2015

Building Resilience
By Olivia Dawson

Tuesday, 10 March  2015

Georgia's expectations from the WCDRR
By Zviad Katsashvili

Tuesday, 10 March 2015

Science, innovation and knowledge – the key for building safe societies in the post-2015 era
By Kristine Tovmasyan

Tuesday, 10 March  2015

Armenia and the Hyogo Framework for Action
By Arman Tsolakyan

Tuesday, 10 March 2015

Kazakhstan's new civil protection law guarantees protection from disasters and timely assistance for our citizens
By Valery Petrov

Monday, 9 March  2015

Why the world’s youth are key to reducing disaster impacts
By Mohammed Omer Mukhier

Monday, 9 March 2015

Community-based DRR: are we setting the bar too high?
By Jonathan Stone

Monday, 9 March  2015

Disaster risk reduction? Don't hold the front page
By Megan Rowling

Monday, 9 March 2015

When older people lead disaster risk reduction, it is inclusive
By Godfred Paul

Monday, 9 March  2015

Sexual and reproductive health is part and parcel of disaster risk reduction
By Aditi Ghosh

Monday, 9 March 2015

Climate overshadows disaster risk reduction. Here's how to change that.
By Tim Kovach

Sunday, 8 March  2015

Achieving resilient development under the post-2015 framework
By Irfan Maqbool

Sunday, 8 March 2015

The road to Sendai: Exploring disaster risk and development at the Tokyo Conference on DRR
By Karlee Johnson

Sunday, 8 March  2015

A new global framework for sharing space technology for disaster risk reduction
By Milind Pimprikar

Sunday, 8 March 2015

Dynamic and creative solutions for resilience: the role of youth
By Julia Harrer

Sunday, 8 March  2015

The Sendai Roadmap: how to make it a risk-informed journey for all
By Kelly Hawrylyshyn

Sunday, 8 March 2015

Saving lives today, building resilience for tomorrow
By Tim Fox

Saturday, 7 March  2015

Hunger reduction and resilience in Africa
By Mohammed Omer Mukhier

Saturday, 7 March 2015

Perspectives from the field: Ecosystem-based approaches to disaster risk reduction
By Marisol Estrella

Saturday, 7 March  2015

How open data can turn the tide in earthquake risk assessment
By Luna Guaschino

Saturday, 7 March 2015

Innovation, older people and disaster risk reduction: the case of Pakistan
By Toby Porter

Saturday, 7 March  2015

What we learned from Japan's triple disaster: preparing for the unimaginable
By Masahito Yamazawa

Saturday, 7 March 2015

التكنولوجياالمساعدة والحد من مخاطر الكوارث للأشخاص ذوي الإعاقة؟
الكاتب: م. نبيل عيد

 

Saturday, 7 March  2015

Regional cooperation for disaster risk reduction
By Hari Krishna Nibanupudi

Saturday, 7 March 2015

A people-centered approach to disaster risk reduction for WASH
By Kate Anderson

Friday, 6 March  2015

MSGU : une façon de rendre le citoyen acteur de sa propre sécurité ?
Par Frédéric Séguret, Ludovic Blay, Gilles Martin

Friday, 6 March 2015

Методики оценки риска. Анализ.
А.Г.Чириков Л.Ю.Куцовский

Friday, 6 March  2015

Why are insurers and the private sector heading in such large numbers to Sendai?
By Rowan Douglas

Friday, 6 March 2015

Let’s define what we mean by 'multi-hazard'
By Joel Gill

Wednesday, 4 March  2015

The post-2015 agenda: Transforming DRR to reduce vulnerability
By Karlee Johnson

Wednesday, 4 February 2015

Preparing Professions and Business for Disaster Response
By Owen Podger

Monday, 2 March  2015

Protecting animals, protecting people
By Rosemary Forest

Thursday, 26 February 2015

Community-centred early warning enhances disaster resilience in the UAE
By Abdulla Ali Al Hmoudi

Wednesday, 25 February 2015

How do we tell the story of disaster risk reduction?
By Carl Mercer

Tuesday, 24 February 2015

Our story from the Indian Ocean Tsunami
By Rahmadhani Sulaiman

Friday, 20 February 2015

The role of gender in disasters, communication and its importance in a post-2015 framework
By Kevin Blanchard

Wednesday, 18 February 2015

Emergency planning in the Isle of Man
By Juan Watterson

Tuesday, 17 February 2015

Understanding earthquakes, mitigating risks
By Alex Copley

Friday, 13 February 2015

Climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction are one and the same
By Kerry-Ann Thompson 

Friday, 13 February 2015

Building on the Pacific’s culture of resilience
By Kevin Petrini 

Wednesday, 11 February 2015

Social capital drives resilience
By Daniel P. Aldrich 

Tuesday, 10 February 2015

Gender based disaster risk reduction in the MENA region 
By Nuha Eltinay 

Friday, 6 February 2015

Disability-inclusive disaster risk reduction for resilient, inclusive and equitable societies
By Yasunobu Ishii 

Thursday, 5 February 2015

How I learned the importance of disaster risk reduction
By Peter Lutz

Wednesday, 4 February 2015

Livelihoods: Recipe for disaster resilience?
By Alex Barrett

Monday, 2 February 2015

All disasters are local
By Andy McElroy

Friday, 30 January 2015

Bigger cities don’t have to mean bigger risks
By Zubair Murshed

Thursday, 29 January 2015

Désastres et droits de l’Homme: comment protéger les « réfugiés climatiques »?
Par Cecile Pilot

Tuesdsay, 27 January 2015

La percepción del riesgo en comunidades resilientes
Por Germán Pinto Aceves

Friday, 23 January 2015

Improved preparedness for response: Meeting the challenge of increasing extreme weather events and climate change risks
By Thorsten Klose

Wednesday, 21 January 2015

Will fault lines in Sendai signal a rocky 2015?
By Tom Mitchell

Wednesday, 21 January

City resilience: developed cities just at risk from climate change
By Kit England

Tuesday, 20 January 2015

Enhance cooperation between the national and local level for DRR
By Janet Edwards

Thursday, 15 January

20 years after Kobe quake, world rethinks disaster risk
By Margareta Wahlström

Wednesday, 14 January 2015

The Pope and Tacloban
By Margareta Wahlström

Tuesday, 13 January 2015

Disaster risk reduction and sustainable development
By Tim Kovach

Monday, 12 January 2015

Five years on from the Haitian Earthquake
By Denis McClean

Tuesday, 6 January 2015

Disaster and Development
By Helen Clark

Monday, 5 January 2015

The art and science of early disaster warnings
By Nalaka Gunawardene

Tuesday, 30 December 2014

Reducing disaster risk through climate services
By Filipe Domingos Freires Lúcio

Tuesday, 30 December 2014

Resilience is a winning business strategy
By Dale Sands

Friday, 26 December 2014

The Indian Ocean Tsunami’s Legacy
By Margareta Wahlström

Friday, 26 December 2014

In disasters, lessons save lives
By Tilly Smith

Thursday, 11 December 2014

Cities can save us and transform development
By Aromar Revi

Thursday, 11 December 2014

The 2014 UN Climate Change Conference and what it means for disaster risk reduction
By Reid Basher