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Can we determine today, the potential loss of tomorrow and change our future?

Related Event

  • 2014 Understanding Risk Forum

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  • Changing Risk, including Climate Change
  • Community Focus
  • Cyclone, Typhoon, Hurricane
  • Data
  • Earthquake
  • Flood
  • Partnerships
  • Poverty and Shocks
  • Risk Assessment
  • Risk Communication & Perception
  • Risk Finance and Insurance
  • Tsunami
  • Volcano

Related Countries

  • Indonesia
  • Jordan
  • Morocco
  • Nepal
  • Papua New Guinea
  • Peru
  • Philippines
  • Tonga
  • Turkey
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Related Regions

  • East Asia and Pacific
  • Global
  • Middle East and North Africa
  • South America
  • South Asia

Event Summary

Organization: GFDRR

Session Leads

  • Dr. Alanna Simpson, Senior DRM Specialist and Labs Lead, GFDRR
  • Kamal Kishore, Programme Adviser, Disaster Risk Reduction & Recovery Team, UNDP Bureau for Crisis Prevention and Recovery

Speakers

  • Dr. Andrew Jones, Regional Development Section Lead, Geoscience Australia
  • David Lallemant, Graduate Fellow, Stanford University
  • Fernando Ramirez, Senior Disaster Risk Management Specialist, World Bank Group
  • Axel Baeumler, Senior Urban Specialist, World Bank Group
  • Khaled Abu Aisheh, Director Architecture, Planning and Disaster Risk Management, Aqaba Special Economic Zone Authority (ASEZA), Jordan
  • Ozlem Velioglu, Officer, AFAD, Turkey

Description

As a global practice we have made substantial progress in developing new approaches to understanding risk; from collection of new data to new approaches to modeling and communicating risk information. This progress has enabled decision makers from across the globe to embrace evidence-based decision making. However, we acknowledge that we do not adequately model and communicate future risk, so actions today can influence the future. Moreover, triggering action – either at policy or community level – through communication of risk information remains a universal challenge. This session will highlight experiences and innovations and will explore how to achieve a revolution in risk information where risk information is targeted, authoritative, trusted, robust, open, understandable and ultimately used to positively change our future.

Session Resources

  • Ignite Powerpoint
  • Jordan Risk Assessment, challenges and opportunities to developing and using seismic risk information
  • Modeling Potential Future Risk To Envision Paths Towards Future Resilience
  • Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow For DRR In Turkey
  • The challenge of risk communication - how risk communication is key to triggering action: Experiences from the Philippines and PNG
  • Managing Resilience Across Sectors "The Morocco Integrated Risk Management Experience"
  • The missing link: from risk analysis to risk reduction investments
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