When data helps policy to address systemic risk
Emerald Publishing Limited
Published on 18. November 2019
148 pages
978-1-83982-273-5 (ISBN)
Description
The Special Issue is based on contributing papers to the UN Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction (GAR19). The Global Assessment Report was launched in May 2019 in a special session at the Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction, which attracted around 4000 people from almost all countries in the world, and is widely known and accessed. Aligned with the with GAR19 key themes and messages, the Special Issue elaborates on selected primary findings of GAR19, with a special focus on the interplay between data and policy in addressing the systemic nature of risks. The selected papers highlight opportunities for data interoperability and analyzing disaster risks more holistically, thus speaking to the systemic nature of risks.
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- Intro
- Covers
- Guest editorial
- The natural environment as a disaster hazard
- WOVOdat - the global volcano unrest database aimed at improving eruption forecasts
- Data schemas for multiple hazards, exposure and vulnerability
- Building national and local capacity for disaster risk management in Cameroon
- Lessons learned from the past for a better resilience to contemporary risks
- Data interoperability for disaster risk reduction in Europe
- Exploring transdisciplinary approaches to facilitate disaster risk reduction
- Considering the impacts of simultaneous perils
- Disaster risk reduction
- Governance of systemic risks for disaster prevention and mitigation
