Disasters Avoided Newsletter #7
Focus on Non-Governmental Organisations (#NGOs) and Civil Society Organisations (#CSOs)
https://mailchi.mp/9e31722a66e3/the-disasters-avoided-newsletter-14190206
#DisastersAvoided
#DRR #DisastersAreNotNatural #NoNaturalDisasters (so we avoid the phrases #NaturalDisaster #NaturalDisasters) #vulnerability #resilience #SendaiFramework #Switch2Sendai #SFDRR #DisasterRisk #DisasterRiskReduction #disaster #disasters
A special issue of the International Journal of Disaster Risk Science has just been published on "The Sendai Framework Celebrates Its 10th Birthday" https://link.springer.com/journal/13753/volumes-and-issues/16-1 with the video from Tuesday's launch event at https://www.ucl.ac.uk/risk-disaster-reduction/events/2025/mar/rdr-monthly-event-gender-disaster-and-sendai-framework-decade-progress
#DRR #DisastersAreNotNatural #NoNaturalDisasters (so we avoid the phrases #NaturalDisaster #NaturalDisasters) #vulnerability #resilience #SendaiFramework #Switch2Sendai #SFDRR #DisasterRisk #DisasterRiskReduction #disaster #disasters
Gender, Disaster, and the Sendai Framework: A Decade of Progress?
18 March 2025, 1830-2100.
At University College London, UK, in-person only, recorded for YouTube.
Programme and registration https://www.ucl.ac.uk/risk-disaster-reduction/events/2025/mar/gender-disaster-and-sendai-framework-decade-progress
#GenderDisaster #DisasterGender #SendaiFramework #Switch2Sendai #SFDRR #DisastersAreNotNatural #NoNaturalDisasters (avoid the phrases #NaturalDisaster #NaturalDisasters) #DisasterRisk #DisasterRiskReduction #DisasterRiskManagement #DisasterPrevention
Disasters Avoided Newsletter #5
https://mailchi.mp/8973b1f121fe/the-disasters-avoided-newsletter-14186981
Focus on the #UNDRR Global Assessment Report (GAR) Special Report 2024 and #NoNaturalDisasters
#DisastersAvoided
#DRR #DisastersAreNotNatural (avoid the phrases #NaturalDisaster #NaturalDisasters) #SendaiFramework #Switch2Sendai #SFDRR #DisasterRisk #DisasterRiskReduction #DisasterRiskManagement
Words into Action guidelines: The Science–Policy–Society ecosystem for disaster risk reduction
"This version is for public review until 6 November 2024 and has the purpose to ensure aspects that are important to consider have not been overlooked."
Download the document and provide feedback at https://www.undrr.org/publication/words-action-guidelines-science-policy-society-ecosystem-disaster-risk-reduction
#DRR #DisastersAreNotNatural #NoNaturalDisasters (avoid the phrases #NaturalDisaster #NaturalDisasters) #SendaiFramework #Switch2Sendai #SFDRR #DisasterRisk #DisasterRiskReduction
"Using #EarthObservations to avoid disasters"
https://www.preventionweb.net/media/100107/download?startDownload=20240907
#DRR #DisastersAreNotNatural #NoNaturalDisasters (so we avoid the phrases #NaturalDisaster #NaturalDisasters) #vulnerability #resilience #SendaiFramework #Switch2Sendai #SFDRR #DisasterRisk #DisasterRiskReduction #disaster #disasters
The 4th #DisastersAvoided newsletter https://mailchi.mp/b3109940a3d3/the-disasters-avoided-newsletter-13969498 focuses on #FloodRisk #FloodRiskManagement #Flooding #Floods #FloodManagement with several new flood-related case studies added to our Disasters Avoided website https://disastersavoided.com
#DRR #DisastersAreNotNatural #NoNaturalDisasters (avoid the phrases #NaturalDisaster #NaturalDisasters) #vulnerability #resilience #SendaiFramework #Switch2Sendai #SFDRR #DisasterRisk #DisasterRiskReduction #DisasterRiskManagement #disaster #disasters
Registration details and some programme information are now available for two disaster research conferences from University College London's Institute for Risk and Disaster Reduction, UK:
(a) 25 June: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/risk-disaster-reduction/events/2024/jun/14th-irdr-annual-conference-futures-risk-causes-consequences-change
(b) 26-27 June: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/risk-disaster-reduction/events/2024/jun/ukadr-2024-conference-collaborative-research-make-difference
#DRR #vulnerability #resilience #SendaiFramework #Switch2Sendai #SFDRR #DisasterRisk #DisasterRiskReduction #DisasterRiskManagement #DisasterResearch #DisasterScience #disaster #disasters #IRDR14 #FuturesOfRisk #UCL
"Choosing or avoiding disaster"
https://doi.org/10.1080/00167487.2024.2307222
#DRR #DisastersAreNotNatural #NoNaturalDisasters (avoid the phrases #NaturalDisaster #NaturalDisasters) #vulnerability #resilience #SendaiFramework #Switch2Sendai #SFDRR #DisasterRisk #DisasterRiskReduction #disaster #disasters
"Coffee & #Geography" with Kit Marie Rackley https://soundcloud.com/geogramblings/coffee-geography-403/s-kxuRyzul62r?si=f5d7880aa70e413d907fe278fca66104 talking about #disasters #DRR #dogs and more.
#DRR #DisastersAreNotNatural #NoNaturalDisasters (so we avoid the phrases #NaturalDisaster #NaturalDisasters) #vulnerability #resilience #SendaiFramework #Switch2Sendai #SFDRR #DisasterRisk #DisasterRiskReduction
"Disasters Avoided" newsletter #2.
Focus on wildfires.
https://mailchi.mp/51cb98593c47/the-disasters-avoided-newsletter
#DisastersAvoided #wildfires #bushfires #forestfires #grassfires #veldtfires
#DRR #DisastersAreNotNatural #NoNaturalDisasters (avoid the phrases #NaturalDisaster #NaturalDisasters) #vulnerability #resilience #SendaiFramework #Switch2Sendai #SFDRR #DisasterRisk #DisasterRiskReduction #disaster #disasters
"Categorising potential non-disasters"
https://doi.org/10.1108/DPM-07-2023-0156
#DRR #DisastersAreNotNatural #NoNaturalDisasters (so we avoid the phrases #NaturalDisaster #NaturalDisasters) #vulnerability #resilience #SendaiFramework #Switch2Sendai #SFDRR #DisasterRisk #DisasterRiskReduction #disaster #disasters
"We rarely hear about the disasters that were avoided - but there's a lot we can learn from them"
https://theconversation.com/we-rarely-hear-about-the-disasters-that-were-avoided-but-theres-a-lot-we-can-learn-from-them-217850
#DisastersAvoided #DRR #DisastersAreNotNatural #NoNaturalDisasters (so we avoid the phrases #NaturalDisaster #NaturalDisasters) #vulnerability #resilience #SendaiFramework #Switch2Sendai #SFDRR #DisasterRisk #DisasterRiskReduction #disaster #disasters
The new edition of "Environmental Hazards" is now available in hardback and paperback https://www.routledge.com/Environmental-Hazards-Assessing-Risk-and-Reducing-Disaster/Smith-Fearnley-Dixon-Bird-Kelman/p/book/9780815365419
Remembering Keith Smith with thanks to Carina Fearnley for leading us in continuing this amazing book. Now we await the 8th edition!
#DRR #DisastersAreNotNatural #NoNaturalDisasters (
avoid the phrases #NaturalDisaster #NaturalDisasters) #vulnerability #resilience #SendaiFramework #Switch2Sendai #SFDRR #DisasterRisk #DisasterRiskReduction #disaster #disasters #EnvironmentalHazards
"Creating effective warnings for all"
-Videos and more https://www.ucl.ac.uk/sts/warning-research-centre/creating-effective-warnings-all/creating-effective-warnings-all-resources
-Summaries https://www.everbridge.com/blog/creating-effective-warnings-for-all and https://doctorswithafrica.org/en/whats-new/news/homenews/warnings-for-all
#EWS #WarningSystems #Warning #DRR #DisasterRiskReduction #DisasterWarning #EarlyWarning #EarlyWarningSystems #SendaiFramework #Switch2Sendai #SFDRR #EarlyWarningsForAll #EarlyWarnings4All #WarningsForAll #Warnings4All
Two recent articles with Gareth Byatt:
"Avoiding Disaster".
In Enterprise Risk magazine from the Institute of Risk Management.
https://irp.cdn-website.com/8bbcaf75/files/uploaded/Enterprise-Risk-Autumn-2023-Avoding-a-disaster.pdf
"Dodge the disaster"
In Crisis Response Journal.
https://irp.cdn-website.com/8bbcaf75/files/uploaded/Crisis%20Response%20Journal%20Summer%202023%2018-2%20-%20Avoiding%20Disasters.pdf
#DRR #DisastersAreNotNatural #NoNaturalDisasters (so we avoid the phrases #NaturalDisaster #NaturalDisasters) #vulnerability #resilience #SendaiFramework #Switch2Sendai #SFDRR #DisasterRisk #DisasterRiskReduction #disaster #disasters
"Is climate change increasing disasters?"
Public seminar at UCL in London, 17 Oct, 1300-1400.
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/events/events/2023/oct/lunch-hour-lecture-climate-change-increasing-disasters
It will be recorded and made available.
#DisastersAreNotNatural #NoNaturalDisasters (avoid the phrases #NaturalDisaster #NaturalDisasters) #DRR #DisasterRiskReduction #DisasterRisk #RiskReduction#disaster #disasters #CCA #ClimateChangeAdaptation #ClimateAdaptation #Adaptation #Climate #ClimateChange
#SDGs #GlobalGoals #ParisAgreement #SendaiFramework #Switch2Sendai #SFDRR
"Can Nature Take the Naturalness Out of 'Natural Disasters'?"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bf0W-jO9U7M
All videos from the Global Animal Disaster Management Conference (GADMC) 2023 https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLHOPN67a86xZ8fsz3oJFdC51s1XFmsvEg with thanks to to Steve Glassey and his team plus @fourpawsint@bird.makeup
#DRR #DisastersAreNotNatural #NoNaturalDisasters (so avoid the phrases #NaturalDisaster #NaturalDisasters) #vulnerability #resilience #SendaiFramework #Switch2Sendai #SFDRR #DisasterRisk #DisasterRiskReduction #AnimalDisaster #DisasterAnimal.
Poster submission is open for the "Creating Effective Warnings for All" #Conference
11-13 September 2023, University College London, UK.
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/sts/warning-research-centre/creating-effective-warnings-all/creating-effective-warnings-all-posters
#EWS #WarningSystems #Warning #Warnings #DRR #DisasterRisk #DisasterRiskReduction #DisasterWarning #EarlyWarning #EarlyWarningSystems #SendaiFramework #Switch2Sendai #SFDRR #EWEA #EW4A