New Book: "Understanding and Addressing #DisasterRisk"
Free PDF from https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003292814 with thanks to UCL Open Access.
And a reminder of the free PDF book published in February:
"Development and Disasters: Natural hazards and vulnerability reduction" (2nd ed.).
https://practicalactionpublishing.com/book/3006/development-and-disasters with thanks to UCL Open Access.
#DisastersAreNotNatural #NoNaturalDisasters (avoid the phrases #NaturalDisaster #NaturalDisasters) #DRR #DisasterRiskReduction #RiskReduction #DisasterRiskManagement
#disasterrisk
Two new blogs:
1. "#Disasters that never happened: 6 preventive actions" https://www.preventionweb.net/drr-community-voices/disasters-never-happened-6-preventive-actions
2. "Mental Health #FirstAid for #Bangladesh"
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/disaster-by-choice/202504/mental-health-first-aid-in-bangladesh-10-years-of-progress
#DisastersAvoided #DRR #DisastersAreNotNatural #NoNaturalDisasters (so we avoid the phrases #NaturalDisaster #NaturalDisasters) #SendaiFramework #Switch2Sendai #SFDRR #DisasterRisk #DisasterRiskReduction #Health #MentalHealth #MHFA #MentalHealthAwareness #GlobalHealth #PublicHealth #vulnerability #resilience
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
#hegspeth #breach #DisasterRisk
Reporters found mobile phone numbers, email addresses and even passwords belonging to top Trump officials, using people search engines and hacked data published in leaks online. They found data for Mike Waltz, Tulsi Gabbard and Pete Hegseth that could be used to target and compromise their devices
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
New book:
"Development and Disasters: Natural hazards and vulnerability reduction" (2nd ed.) by J. Lewis and I. Kelman.
Free PDF download https://practicalactionpublishing.com/book/3006/development-and-disasters thanks to UCL Open Access.
Practical Action Publishing.
#OpenAccess #DisastersAreNotNatural #NoNaturalDisasters (avoid the phrases #NaturalDisaster #NaturalDisasters) #DRR #DisasterRiskReduction #DisasterRisk #RiskReduction #DisasterRiskManagement #disaster #disasters #development #hazards #NaturalHazards #vulnerability #resilience
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
Study for a disaster Master's degree at University College London, UK.
See https://www.ucl.ac.uk/risk-disaster-reduction/study/masters-programmes for applications and funding for:
-MSc Risk, Disaster and Resilience.
-MSc Risk and Disaster Science.
-MRes Risk and Disaster Reduction.
Deadlines: Non-UK 4 April and UK 29 August.
#DisastersAreNotNatural #NoNaturalDisasters (avoid the phrases #NaturalDisaster #NaturalDisasters) #DRR #DisasterRiskReduction #DisasterRisk #RiskReduction #DisasterRiskManagement #disaster #disasters
"Katastrophen aus Menschenhand" https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-68680-5
The #German translation of "Disaster by Choice" https://global.oup.com/academic/product/disaster-by-choice-9780198841357
#DisastersAreNotNatural #NoNaturalDisasters (avoid the phrases #NaturalDisaster #NaturalDisasters) #DRR #DisasterRiskReduction #DisasterRisk #RiskReduction #DisasterRiskManagement #disaster #disasters #Katastrophen
#MoreThanHuman #risk #anthropology: #cetaceans beach https://doi.org/10.1017/S1473550416000252 while:
1. #Ostriches do not bury their heads https://doi.org/10.1080/00359199509520346
2. #Lemmings do not complete mass suicide https://doi.org/10.1093/pastj/gtu015
3. #Elephants likely forget https://doi.org/10.3758/s13420-024-00655-y
4. #Frogs will not boil alive in slowly-heated water https://doi.org/10.1086/physzool.41.4.30155478 (or https://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2010/12/07/3085614.htm )
Any others?
#DRR #DisasterRiskReduction #DisasterRisk #RiskReduction #DisasterRiskManagement #Animals #AnimalsInDisasters
"Researching equids and disaster risk management"
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/researching-equids-disaster-risk-management-the-brooke-u4ahe
With @Brooke and @gemma
#DRR #DisasterRiskReduction #DisasterRisk #RiskReduction #DisasterRiskManagement #Equids #Horses #Donkeys #Mules #Animals #AnimalsInDisasters
đź’»New blogpost
Our team members Alexander Zipf, Anne Schauss and Steffen Knoblauch traveled to Chile to visit the Heidelberg Center Latin America. There, they hosted a course about Geographic Information Systems (#GIS) and Applications for #DisasterRisk #Management.
⬇️full report⬇️
https://heigit.org/teaching-at-heidelberg-center-latin-america-in-the-master-program-governance-of-risk-and-resources/
Just-published and free-to-download:
"Visualizing #DisasterRiskReduction to Inspire Positive Action"
https://doi.org/10.1080/00139157.2024.2395798
Other photo essays:
https://doi.org/10.24564/0002019687
https://doi.org/10.47818/DRArch.2023.v4si106
#Islanders #IslandStudies #resilience #vulnerability #resiliency #DRR #ScienceArt #ArtScience #PhotoEssay #DisastersAreNotNatural #NoNaturalDisasters (avoid the phrases #NaturalDisaster #NaturalDisasters) #DisasterRisk #GenderDisaster #DisasterGender #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
"Disaster by Choice" https://global.oup.com/academic/product/disaster-by-choice-9780198841357 has just been published in #German "Katastrophen aus Menschenhand" https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-68680-5
#DRR #DisasterRiskReduction #DisasterRisk #DisasterRiskManagement #DRR #DisasterRiskReduction #DisasterRisk #DisasterRiskManagement #DisastersAreNotNatural #NoNaturalDisasters (so we avoid the phrases #NaturalDisaster #NaturalDisasters) #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
⛑ Don't miss the next #EarthEngineUserMeetup on 15 March! Join Ka Hei Chow, as she shares about a "#Cloud Application for EO-based #Climate and #DisasterRisk Assessment: A #CCDR Approach" for the World Bank.
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