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    • Framing Disasters
      • Defining a disaster
      • Avoiding a disaster
      • A symphony of action
      • Links to Sendai
      • An emerging model
      • Governance Accountability
      • Targets & economics
      • Earth observations
      • Tools & techniques
    • Case Studies
      • Case Studies list
      • Map view
    • General Information
      • Our articles and papers
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      • Liaison with UN agencies
      • Going beyond the SDGs
      • Urban Disaster Risk
      • Contact us
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  • Home
  • Framing Disasters
    • Defining a disaster
    • Avoiding a disaster
    • A symphony of action
    • Links to Sendai
    • An emerging model
    • Governance Accountability
    • Targets & economics
    • Earth observations
    • Tools & techniques
  • Case Studies
    • Case Studies list
    • Map view
  • General Information
    • Our articles and papers
    • Our interviews
    • Related activities
    • Liaison with UN agencies
    • Going beyond the SDGs
    • Urban Disaster Risk
    • Contact us
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Related activities towards Disasters Avoided

This section provides examples of work to avoid disasters that is being undertaken by other people, teams and organisations which are not linked to the Disasters Avoided initiative (it is not an all-encompassing list).

The work of others to avoid disasters

The Disasters Averted initiative

The Disasters Averted initiative

The Disasters Averted initiative

The Disasters Averted initiative recognises examples of good practice to avoid disasters.

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No Natural Disasters

The Disasters Averted initiative

The Disasters Averted initiative

The UNDRR #NoNaturalDisasters campaign aims to change the terminology of disasters, to stop using the word 'natural'...

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Early Warnings for All

The Disasters Averted initiative

Early Warnings for All

Early Warnings for All is an initiative to ensure everyone on Earth is protected from hazardous weather, water, or climate events..

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Zero Climate Disasters

Early Warnings for All

UNDRR has launched a campaign to ensure there are zero climate disasters in the years ahead...

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Measuring invisible benefits

This paper explores probabilistic counterfactual analysis to calculate ‘probabilistic lives saved’ from interventions...

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Designing for Disaster

This series published in Dezeen explores how design can help prevent, mitigate and recover from natural hazards...

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Financial protocols guidance

Financial protocols guidance

Financial protocols guidance

This report examines the financial protocols of five multilateral and non-governmental anticipatory action financing mechanisms...

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Disaster Risk Books

The Routledge Studies Series

The Routledge Studies Series

The Routledge Studies Series

This series, for which Ilan is the editor, contains over 30 books of studies about hazards, climate change and disaster risk.

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Disasters by Choice

The Routledge Studies Series

The Routledge Studies Series

This book by Ilan explores some of our worst disasters, to show how we can and should act to stop people dying when they occur.

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The Blessings of Disaster

The Routledge Studies Series

The Blessings of Disaster

This book shows how we can think in better ways about disasters, to strengthen and extend our existence as individuals and as a species.

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Disaster Risk

Climate Adaptation & Disaster Risk

The Blessings of Disaster

The text offers a comprehensive and unique perspective on disaster risk associated with natural hazards. 


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The Invention of Disaster

Climate Adaptation & Disaster Risk

Climate Adaptation & Disaster Risk

This contribution argues the domination of Western knowledge in disaster scholarship has led to its policies and practices of disaster risk reduction to be imposed around the world.

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Climate Adaptation & Disaster Risk

Climate Adaptation & Disaster Risk

Climate Adaptation & Disaster Risk

This guide explores the benefits of using NBS. It includes case studies from across Asia to show how NBS can be mainstreamed in the portfolio of the Asian Development Bank.

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