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The combination of climate change, population growth and urbanization has put an unprecedented number of people in the path of destructive weather events over the last 30 years.
The event focused on disaster risk management through the lens of African, Caribbean, and Pacific (ACP) countries.
Cet éditorial décrit les mesures prises récemment pour lutter contre les risques naturels à Djibouti.
GFDRR supports resilient reconstruction planning and post-disaster assessments, helping more than 50 disaster-affected countries with these approaches since its launch in 2007.
Cities around the world are failing to plan for fast-increasing risks from extreme weather and other hazards, particularly as population growth and surging migration put more people in the path of those threats, according to the World Bank.
GFDRR's Mathijs van Ledden speaks to ZDF German Television about reducing flood risk in cities. [German]
Japan will help other countries train experts on disaster management and prevention under an initiative to be unveiled at an upcoming United Nations conference.
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.
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.