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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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This paper seeks to take stock of what has been done to address complex risks in risk management risks. Its intention is to highlight what is known and what risk managers can already do to better address complex risks. The publication also underlines the

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This paper represents the first phase of a long-term research project that aims to investigate risk interdependencies - particularly between different sectors of critical infrastructure (CI) - and the way in which unfolding disasters
trigger cascading

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The Post-2015 Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction presents an opportunity to make broad-sweeping changes to how governments are further encouraged to manage disaster information during the response and recovery phases, and how they approach post-event

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This paper’s information is drawn on excerpts of literature reviewed about disasters and oil resource from the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction, the United Nations and Uganda, oil and disaster scholarship, media and other sources. The authors note

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This publication provides insight into the potential richness and range of risk assessment approaches and their capacity to meet a variety of purposes and contexts within the same overarching framework. It is aimed at government officials, donors, and

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This study advocates the need for disaster preparedness strategies to go beyond linear approaches to risk management. This is necessary in order to better address complex interdependent risks where such risks may be novel or unforeseen and which may

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This input paper discusses the participation of private and public sectors in disaster risk management and especially the private sector's contribution to the area-wide economic resilience. It attempts to cover an issue on which the Hyogo Framework for

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This paper discusses on the disaster risk reduction and contingency plans in Metro Manila, simulation drills and community participation, and the challenges in disaster preparedness planning in the Philippines.

The document presents the following policy

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This input paper recognises that reducing disaster risks and impact is a shared responsibility across different stakeholders from different sectors. That shared responsibility can be strengthened through a knowledge-sharing platform with strong

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This paper describes research designed to improve understanding of key factors that comprise community resilience and further develop measurement tools that enable stakeholders to build their capacity and capability to confront and survive better through

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