UNDRR Publications

We produce a range of publications by collecting and analysing risk data through a range of tools, knowledge products, and mobilising like-minded partners.

Featured publications

United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction – Regional Office for the Americas and the Caribbean

Documents and publications

Disaster reduction in Latin America and the Caribbean: ISDR informs, issue 7, 2003

Living with risk: turning the tide of disasters towards sustainable development

This issue includes:
- Editorial
- Global ISDR
- Disaster in the Region
- In the Spotlight
- Partners in Action
- Kids an Youth
- Multimedia

Documents and publications

Disaster reduction in Latin America and the Caribbean: ISDR informs, issue 6, 2002

This issue includes:
- Editorial
- Global ISDR
- Disaster in the Region
- Contributions
- Partners in Action
- Kids an Youth
- Multimedia

Documents and publications

Disaster reduction in Latin America and the Caribbean: ISDR informs, issue 5, 2002

Disaster reduction for sustainable mountain development

This issue includes:
- Editorial
- Global ISDR
- Disaster in the Region
- Contributions
- In the Spotlight: Moutain Areas
- Partners in Action
- Kids an Youth
- Multimedia

Documents and publications

Disaster reduction in Latin America and the Caribbean: ISDR informs, issue 4, 2001

This issue includes:
- Editorial
- Global ISDR
- Disaster in the Region
- Contributions
- Partners in Action
- Kids an Youth
- Multimedia

Documents and publications

Disaster reduction in Latin America and the Caribbean: ISDR informs, issue 3, 2001

Countering disasters, targeting vulnerability

This issue includes:
- Editorial
- Global ISDR
- Disaster in the Region
- Contributions
- In the Spotlight: Communities
- Partners in Action
- Kids an Youth
- Multimedia

Documents and publications

Disaster reduction in Latin America and the Caribbean: ISDR informs, issue 2, 2000

This issue includes:
- Editorial
- Global ISDR
- Disaster in the Region
- Contributions
- Partners in Action
- Multimedia

Documents and publications

Disaster reduction in Latin America and the Caribbean: ISDR informs, issue 1, 2000

Disaster prevention, education and youth

This issue includes:
- Editorial
- Global ISDR
- Contributions
- Disaster in the Region
- In the Spotlight
- The Role of the University
- Disaster in the Region
- Partners in Action
- Multimedia
- Calendar

Documents and publications

Safe schools in safe territories

Reflections on the role of the educational community in risk management:

This document aims to prompt reflection on what exactly constitutes as a safe school: offering a resistible infrastructure in the event of a disaster or one that will also ensure

Documents and publications

Disasters reduction begins in schools: strengthening of local risk and disaster management in the education sector in Central America

This document addresses the “Local Risk and Disaster Management Strengthening in the Education Sector in Central America” project at the request of the CECC and as part of the framework of the PRRD (Regional Project for Disaster Reduction) of the

Educational materials

Empieza en la escuela

The video shows how school children in Central America have been affected by the impact of natural hazards. Their education suffers when schools are turned into temporary shelters, often for an extended period of time. Education in disaster preparedness

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