Talk:Disaster risk reduction/Archive 1

Suggestions in 2008
I would suggest that Disaster risk reduction is how we stop it happening and disaster management is what we do once it has.

I think we should merge the this with Disaster management since this topic comes under that —Preceding unsigned comment added by 122.163.244.30 (talk) 16:47, 25 September 2008 (UTC)

I don't agree since they are very distinct areas and require different activities, interventions and actions. In fact there is a need for more detail of how to prepare for and reduce the impact of different kinds of disaster such as floods, cyclones, earthquakes. Each require a different focus. Water and sanitation preparedness and DRR is also different from health promotion or health system preparedness for example. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ckob2 (talk • contribs) 17:05, 7 March 2011 (UTC)

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Subcontext for saving 200,000 lives with clean drinking water
The article reports in "Context" that $1 of less humanitarian aid, invested in prevention, yields a $5 - $10 reduction in need for aid. It also decries that only 1% of the $10 billion in aid is "invested" in prevention of losses from disaster.

MATH: The claim is that $1 invested in "risk reduction" saves "$5 to $10 in economic losses from disaster."

1% of $10 billion in humanitarian aid= $100 million.

So it's reduce humanitarian aid for drinking water by $1, to have $10 to save the dictator's palace? The $1 buys 2 cubic meters of water (NYTimes#s). Based on water pricing & usage, that's about 200,000 people of water/year. Pi314m (talk) 22:34, 6 February 2019 (UTC)

Map from German Watch's publication "Global Climate Risk Index"?
Would like to add the map from German Watch's publication "Global Climate Risk Index" https://germanwatch.org/sites/germanwatch.org/files/20-2-01e%20Global%20Climate%20Risk%20Index%202020_10.pdf. Have requested copyright release from German Watch. ASRASR (talk) 01:19, 30 November 2020 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by ASRASR (talk • contribs) 14:58, 27 November 2020 (UTC)

Culled the list of "major publications"
I have culled the list of "major publications" from the article. If anyone wants to cite any of these publications in the text (or put websites under external links), go ahead:


 * World Atlas of Natural Disaster Risk
 * Toward Resilience: A Guide to Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Adaptation
 * Disaster prevention: a role for business? – ProVention & Maplecroft
 * Tools for Mainstreaming Disaster Risk Reduction: Guidance Notes for Development Organisations – Charlotte Benson and John Twigg with Tiziana Rossetto, IFRC & ProVention
 * Natural Disaster Hotspots Case Studies – World Bank
 * World Disasters Report 2006, IFRC
 * Indigenous Knowledge for Disaster Risk Reduction UNISDR
 * Building resilience from the ground up in the Maldives – United Nations
 * Words Into Action UNDRR
 * Living with Risk UNDRR
 * UNISDR Informs UNDRR
 * Guidance Notes on Safer School Construction World Bank, INEE, ISDR
 * Guidance Note on Integrating Disaster Risk Reduction into the CCA and UNDAF UNDG
 * Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction UNDRR EMsmile (talk) 11:46, 8 March 2021 (UTC)