UNDRR Publications

This paper introduces a technology platform for the global network on climate change adaptation (CCA) and disaster risk reduction (DRR). The platform defines a foundation that provides various products or services and its objective is to allow business

This paper explains how mitigating the emergence and spread of infectious disease necessitates mapping and prioritising the interdependencies between public health and other sectors. Conversely, during an international public health emergency, significant

This paper examines the heterogeneity within Africa’s institutional arrangements for climate-related disaster risk management and introduces a classification that ranks each country as one of three disaster management policy types: the ‘Unprepared

The paper focuses on reviewing the progress achieved against HFA Priority for Action 1 ("Ensuring that disaster risk reduction is a national and local priority with a strong institutional basis for implementation") and specifically the progress in

This paper presents a pilot project initiated by the Asian Disaster Preparedness Center in southern Sri Lanka, which helped to address problems and policy issues in relation to flood protection while mainstreaming climate information applications in order

This paper uses the construction sector organisations in New Zealand as a case study of the impact of disaster risk reduction on business functioning after an event. 

The paper concludes that in order to ensure that the disaster recovery and

This paper discusses the important of the human rights-based approach regarding public health for the reduction of disaster risk in Japan. The authors also underline the fact that transboundary cooperation is necessary to prepare for mega-disasters.

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This paper presents the results from a multi-country research on loss and damage in vulnerable communities, to study how households with different vulnerability profiles try to deal with climatic stressors and their (in)ability to avoid loss and damage.

This paper discusses and examines three sub-topics related to early warning system (EWS) for lahar in Merapi volcano. The first is the history of the development process of EWS in Merapi volcano before the 2010 eruption, the second is the impact of the

This paper presents a methodology to assess existing public information on awareness building programs. It also presents recommendations to contribute to effecting disaster risk reduction change. According to the author, there is a need to develop