Blogs
Ede Ijjasz-Vasquez
Francis Ghesquiere
The Understanding Risk community will convene at the Understanding Risk Forum 2018 May 14–18 in Mexico City. The Forum will highlight best practices, facilitate nontraditional partnerships, and showcase the latest technical knowledge in disaster risk identification
Markus Kostner
The fifth round of social impacts monitoring (SIM) of the impacts of Cyclone Nargis in Myanmar offers unparalleled insights into how the devastating storm has altered the trajectory of affected regions a decade after the disaster.
Adeline Choy
From cloud computing to the internet of things, state-of-the-art weather forecasting tools are helping communities minimize the risk of flooding.
Jon Mikel Walton
Communicating the risk of volcanic eruptions to communities is a complex task. Here are a few key lessons we've learned from recent experiences on the challenges of communicating volcanic risk.
Adeline Choy
Zuzana Stanton-Geddes
Jolanta Kryspin-Watson
Floods account for 43% of all recorded disaster events in the past 20 years. Will climate change exacerbate flooding events? How much will sea level rise? How extreme will rainfall be? What we do know is that the best way to cope with uncertainty is flexibility.
Marc Forni
The need for urban resilience is urgent, the funding gap intimidating, the challenges complex. But if cities and investors can team up with the help of multilateral institutions, the cities of the world will be much closer to achieving resilience.
Poonam Pillai
Recognizing the cross-border nature of climate and disaster risks in the region, the countries of South Asia are pursuing a regional approach to building hydromet capacity.
Nicola Ranger
Putting in place disaster finance at an early stage can help create the certainty and predictability required to develop good planning and systems for response and recovery.
Sonia Madhvani
A World Bank project recently analyzed the flows of people within the Haitian capital Port-au-Prince using cell phone data, and identified the most critical links in the urban transportation system.
Tatiana Proskuryakova
Over the past 85 years, civil protection in Romania has developed into a strong, reliable system that is able to provide rapid response to disaster.