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Disaster risk management in post-2015 development goals: potential targets and indicators
Disasters can hamper economic growth, affect poverty levels and cause human suffering. This paper argues that including measures to promote disaster risk management (DRM) in the post-2015 development goals is needed to incentivise investment in advance of shocks to protect lives and livelihoods, but also to save money. It explores three scenarios for how DRM could be included in the post-2015 framework: a standalone goal on disasters, supported by targets; a target on disasters within a goal on resilience, security or tackling obstacles to development; integration of DRM into other goals. The ...
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Available online: http://www.odi.org.uk/sites/odi.org.uk/files/odi-assets/publications-opinion-fil [...]
Tom Mitchell ; Overseas Development Institute (United Kingdom)
Published by: ODI ; 2013Disasters can hamper economic growth, affect poverty levels and cause human suffering. This paper argues that including measures to promote disaster risk management (DRM) in the post-2015 development goals is needed to incentivise investment in advance of shocks to protect lives and livelihoods, but also to save money. It explores three scenarios for how DRM could be included in the post-2015 framework: a standalone goal on disasters, supported by targets; a target on disasters within a goal on resilience, security or tackling obstacles to development; integration of DRM into other goals. The report particularly highlights how DRM could be included in poverty reduction and education goals. It concludes that given intense competition between competing development priorities, disasters will invariably have a limited profile within the post-2015 framework. The framework must therefore not be seen as the ultimate vehicle for delivering the full range of objectives of the DRM community.
Language(s): English
Format: Digital (Free)Tags: Natural hazards ; Climate change ; Adaptation ; Multi-hazard Early Warning Systems (MHEWS) ; Climate policies
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When disasters and conflicts collide: improving links between disaster resilience and conflict prevention
This report focuses on the links between conditions of vulnerability and risks associated with the nexus of natural disasters, conflict and fragility. It also recognises that any given context will be mired by an even more complex array of intersecting risks. For example, in 2011, drought, and food and political insecurity in East Africa contributed to a full-scale humanitarian crisis. A combination of natural hazards, conflict and fragility provided a recipe for human suffering.
When disasters and conflicts collide: improving links between disaster resilience and conflict prevention
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Available online: http://www.odi.org.uk/sites/odi.org.uk/files/odi-assets/publications-opinion-fil [...]
Katie Harris ; David Keen ; Tom Mitchell ; Overseas Development Institute (United Kingdom)
Published by: ODI ; 2013This report focuses on the links between conditions of vulnerability and risks associated with the nexus of natural disasters, conflict and fragility. It also recognises that any given context will be mired by an even more complex array of intersecting risks. For example, in 2011, drought, and food and political insecurity in East Africa contributed to a full-scale humanitarian crisis. A combination of natural hazards, conflict and fragility provided a recipe for human suffering.
Language(s): English
Format: Digital (Free)Tags: Natural hazards ; Drought ; Flood ; Region I - Africa ; Afghanistan ; Ethiopia ; Kenya ; Nepal ; Somalia ; Uganda
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Disaster risk management in post-2015 policy frameworks: forging a more resilient future
This briefing paper considers what is needed to strengthen the management of disaster risk over the next two decades and strategies to embed disaster risk management in the international policy frameworks to achieve this. Key points: (i) a failure to include disaster risk management (DRM) in the international policy frameworks to be agreed in 2015 could undermine progress and squander investments; (ii) given the predicted wide-ranging impact of disasters by 2030, action is required to ensure that DRM is mainstreamed in these policy agreements and is supported by an international DRM mechanism; ...
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Available online: http://www.preventionweb.net/files/27544_odibreifingpaper.pdf
Tom Mitchell ; Emily Wilkinson ; Overseas Development Institute (United Kingdom)
Published by: ODI ; 2012This briefing paper considers what is needed to strengthen the management of disaster risk over the next two decades and strategies to embed disaster risk management in the international policy frameworks to achieve this. Key points: (i) a failure to include disaster risk management (DRM) in the international policy frameworks to be agreed in 2015 could undermine progress and squander investments; (ii) given the predicted wide-ranging impact of disasters by 2030, action is required to ensure that DRM is mainstreamed in these policy agreements and is supported by an international DRM mechanism; and (iii) this will require a stronger evidence base, greater political commitment and efforts across policy areas, from health and education to economic and fiscal planning.
Language(s): English
Format: Digital (Free)Tags: Capacity development ; Disaster Risk Management (DRM)
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Tackling exposure: placing disaster risk management at the heart of national economic and fiscal policy
As a follow-up to a first paper A preliminary analysis of flood and storm disaster data in Viet Nam, this Quang Binh case study provides a more in-depth disaster profile of one particular province in Viet Nam, including specific temporal and spatial distribution patterns while using district aggregated data. It also looks deeper into the relationship between disasters and poverty through analysis of various indicators: number of deaths, impact on housing and agricultural produce, poverty rate and the percentage of poor households.
The first part of this paper examines the disas ...
Tackling exposure: placing disaster risk management at the heart of national economic and fiscal policy
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Available online: http://cdkn.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/CDKN-Tackling-exposure-Mitchell1.pdf
Tom Mitchell ; Reinhard Mechler ; Katie Harris ; Climate and Development Knowledge Network ; Overseas Development Institute (United Kingdom)
Published by: CDKN ; 2012As a follow-up to a first paper A preliminary analysis of flood and storm disaster data in Viet Nam, this Quang Binh case study provides a more in-depth disaster profile of one particular province in Viet Nam, including specific temporal and spatial distribution patterns while using district aggregated data. It also looks deeper into the relationship between disasters and poverty through analysis of various indicators: number of deaths, impact on housing and agricultural produce, poverty rate and the percentage of poor households.
The first part of this paper examines the disaster profile of Quang Binh and the temporal and spatial distribution patterns disaggregated by district. The second part of the paper explores further the relationship between poverty and disaster data, analyzing the relationship between disaster loss and damage (the number of deaths, total number of houses destroyed and damaged, and areas of agriculture destroyed and damaged) and poverty (poverty rate, percentage of poor households) at district level.Language(s): English
Format: Digital (Free)Tags: Natural hazards ; Climate change ; Disaster Risk Management (DRM) ; Economics ; Tropical cyclone ; Severe cold ; Earthquake ; Flood ; Heat wave ; Landslide ; Region II - Asia ; El Salvador ; Honduras ; Mexico
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Managing climate extremes and disasters in Latin America and the Caribbean: lessons from the IPCC SREX reports
This summary highlights the key findings of the IPCC Special Report on Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters to Advance Climate Change Adaptation (SREX) report including an assessment of the science and the implications of this for society and sustainable development. It includes material directly taken from the SREX report, where the underlying source is clearly referenced, but it also presents synthesis messages that are the views of the authors of this summary and not necessarily those of the IPCC. It is intended to illuminate the SREX report’s vital findings for decision maker ...
Managing climate extremes and disasters in Latin America and the Caribbean: lessons from the IPCC SREX reports
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Available online: http://cdkn.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/CDKN001_CDKN-RFQ_LAC-report_electroni [...]
Catherine Cameron ; Gemma Norrington-Davies ; Victoria te Velde of Agulhas ; Tom Mitchell ; Climate & Development Knowledge Network
Published by: CDKN ; 2012This summary highlights the key findings of the IPCC Special Report on Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters to Advance Climate Change Adaptation (SREX) report including an assessment of the science and the implications of this for society and sustainable development. It includes material directly taken from the SREX report, where the underlying source is clearly referenced, but it also presents synthesis messages that are the views of the authors of this summary and not necessarily those of the IPCC. It is intended to illuminate the SREX report’s vital findings for decision makers in Latin America and the Caribbean, and so better equip them to make sound investments to reduce disaster risk in a changing climate. This series pulls out the state-of-the-art knowledge about current and future impacts of climate extremes, and options for dealing with them.
Language(s): English
Format: Digital (Free)Tags: Natural hazards ; Extreme weather event ; Disaster management ; Latin America ; Caribbean ; Region IV - North America, Central America and the Caribbean
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Managing climate extremes and disasters in Asia: lessons from the IPCC SREX reports
This summary highlights the key findings of the IPCC Special Report on Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters to Advance Climate Change Adaptation (SREX) report from
an Asian perspective, including an assessment of the science and the implications of this for society and sustainable development. It includes material directly taken from the SREX report, where the underlying source is clearly referenced, but it also presents synthesis messages that are the views of the authors of this summary and not necessarily those of the IPCC. It is intended to illuminate the SREX report’ ...
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Managing climate extremes and disasters in Africa: lessons from the IPCC SREX reports
This summary highlights the key findings of the IPCC Special Report on Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters to Advance Climate Change Adaptation (SREX) report from an African perspective, including an assessment of the science and the implications of this for society and sustainable development. It includes material directly taken from the SREX report, where the underlying source is clearly referenced, but it also presents synthesis messages that are the views of the authors of this summary and not necessarily those of the IPCC. It is intended to illuminate the SREX report’s vita ...
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