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Tools & Techniques to help avoid disasters

What tools and techniques can support efforts to avoid disasters?

Many different tools and techniques exist, and are published online, to support people to manage disasters. In this section, we look at some of the tools and techniques that can help us to avoid disasters (this list will be added to over time).

Techniques to help avoid disasters

A way to analyse benefits

Counterfactual analysis (1)

Counterfactual analysis (1)

Here is one way to articulate benefits of taking action to avoid disasters...

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Counterfactual analysis (1)

Counterfactual analysis (1)

Counterfactual analysis (1)

This piece discusses downward counterfactual analysis for multi-risk cascades...

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Counterfactual analysis (2)

Counterfactual analysis (1)

How to use Earth observations

This piece discusses how to use counterfactual thinking to learn from success...

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How to use Earth observations

How to use Earth observations

How to use Earth observations

How we leverage Earth observations is key to having upfront data to avoid disasters...

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Pre-mortems

How to use Earth observations

Pre-mortems

Pre-mortems can help us think through "prospective hindsight" to what could happen...

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Hackathons

How to use Earth observations

Pre-mortems

Hackathons are energised, fast-paced ways to solve problems...

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The bowtie technique

The bowtie technique

The bowtie technique

How to use the bowtie to focus in on a particular risk and controls required...

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Specific tools to help avoid disasters

The UN PAN DRR Toolkit

A diagnostics tool from CADRi

A diagnostics tool from CADRi

This UN PAN toolkit equips public entities with tools and techniques for DRR...

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A diagnostics tool from CADRi

A diagnostics tool from CADRi

A diagnostics tool from CADRi

A diagnostics assessment can help you assess the effort to avoid disasters...

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Community wildfire scorecard

A diagnostics tool from CADRi

Community wildfire scorecard

This scorecard is designed to help communities assess their risk to wildfires...

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A City DRR scorecard

A fire modelling tool

Community wildfire scorecard

All cities can evaluate Disaster Resilience using a free UNDRR scorecard...

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A fire modelling tool

A fire modelling tool

A fire modelling tool

Australia's National Science agency CSIRO has made available the Spark Platform...

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The UNDRR IRP Toolkit

A fire modelling tool

A fire modelling tool

IRP provides recovery guidance and resources for disaster recovery and building back better.

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The WUI Planning Hub

The WUI Planning Hub

The WUI Planning Hub

 The Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI) Planning Hub provides resources and tools to practitioners for wildfire planning activities.

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