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.

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Global catastrophic risk and planetary boundaries: The relationship to global targets and disaster risk reduction

This contributing paper presents a literature review on the Sustainable Development Goals and the Sendai Framework, global catastrophic risk, and planetary boundaries before undertaking a scenario analysis.
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Macroeconomic co-benefits of DRR investment: Assessment using the Dynamic Model of Multi-hazard Mitigation CoBenefits (DYNAMMICs) model

This contributing paper aims to bridge the important knowledge gap between the conceptualization of disaster risk reduction (DRR) benefits and formal theoretical underpinnings and methods for quantifying such multiple benefits.
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Why are people still losing their lives and livelihoods to disaster? 100,000 perceptions of risk from Views from the Frontline 2019

This contributing paper outlines the process and outcomes of the Views from the Frontline programme, a risk assessment approach where communities’ needs and risk perceptions are brought to the forefront of resilience planning.
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The health emergency and disaster risk management: An emerging framework for achieving synergies among the Sendai Framework, the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, the New Urban Agenda and the Paris Agreement

This contributing paper discusses the potential of the Health Emergency and Disaster Risk Management (Health-EDRM) Framework in promoting synergies in pursing risk-resilient sustainable development pathways.
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Synergies and trade-offs between sustainable economic development and climate change adaptation

This contributing paper aims to ascertain whether two designated sustainable pathways for economic development enable or constrain effective response to climate-related disaster risks.
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Data tools for assessing disaster risk reduction: An analysis of literature using open-access disaster risk reduction spatial datasets to implement the Sendai Framework

This study explores the use of geospatial information, specifically open-access spatial data, and the implementation of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030, a framework designed to manage disaster risk
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Disaster risk reduction in the ASEAN region: Understanding and assessing systematic risks of floods and landslides in a river basin context

This contributing paper presents the results of a project implemented to assess the systemic risks of floods and landslides in selected river basins by integrating climate change projections into risk assessments.
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Earth Observations into action: Systemic integration of Earth Observation applications into national risk reduction decision structures

The purpose of this contributing paper is to demonstrate scalable and replicable methods to advance and integrate the use of Earth observations to support risk-informed decision making, based on documented national and subnational needs and requirements.
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Shedding light on avoided disasters: Measuring invisible benefits of disaster risk reduction using counterfactual probabilistic analysis

This study discusses four types of situations where successful DRM interventions are made invisible and propose an analysis to calculate the ‘probabilistic lives saved’ from disaster risk management interventions, that would otherwise remain unnoticed.
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Global climate indicators, risks and the Sustainable Development Goals, visually mapped

This contributing paper presents a mapping tool that connects the seven World Meteorological Organization (WMO) state of the climate indicators to climate change impacts and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

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