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Understanding risk is more than just modeling risk; it requires an understanding of the development and social processes that underlie and drive the generation of disaster risk.
GFDRR's Mathijs van Ledden speaks to ZDF German Television about reducing flood risk in cities. [German]
Imagine being able to choose the safest school for your kids–the school that is least likely to flood, for example–by using up-to-date map data. This is possible thanks to green mapping technology that is transforming how communities operate.
Under the Grant Agreement, the Royal Government of Bhutan will receive a Grant of US$ 3.8 million from the World Bank for the Hydromet Services and Disaster Resilience Regional Project.
The World Bank Group, as part of its Disaster Vulnerability Reduction Project, and GFDRR facilitated this agreement through a $30 million loan granted to the Government of Jamaica.
er the island sustained severe damage in a tropical storm, Dominica's economy has suffered horrendously. To assess the full extent of the damage, a group of organizations put their resources together to study the problem. What they found proved shocking.
Natural disasters and climate change have devastating effects on cities and the four billion people who live in them today, according to a new report by the World Bank and the Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery (GFDRR). By 2030, without
The World Bank is partnering with the Global Covenant of Mayors and will lend $4.5 billion USD to ensure 150 cities have the funds to implement initiatives to increase sustainability and resilience and fight climate change.
A cloud-based mobile app that collates crowdsourced data during disasters won two awards in a recent hackathon on disaster resilience.