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However, what continues is the overall goal of enabling countries and communities to be stronger and more resilient following a disaster by reducing vulnerability to future disasters. Building resilience entails addressing physical, social, environmental, and economic vulnerabilities and shocks. [1]
Disaster risk reduction (DRR) is defined by United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) as those actions which aim to "prevent new and reducing existing disaster risk and managing residual risk, all of which contribute to strengthening resilience and therefore to the achievement of sustainable development". [2]: 16
CDRI's initial focus is on developing disaster-resilience in ecological, social, and economic infrastructure. It aims to achieve substantial changes in member countries' policy frameworks and future infrastructure investments, along with a major decrease in the economic losses suffered due to disasters. [4]
The World Conference on Disaster Reduction was held in Kobe, Hyogo, Japan and adopted the "Hyogo Framework for Action 2005–2015: Building the Resilience of Nations and Communities to Disasters", which is currently serving as the guiding document in strengthening and building international cooperation to ensure that disaster risk reduction is ...
Community resilience is the sustained ability of a community to use available resources (energy, communication, transportation, food, etc.) to respond to, withstand, and recover from adverse situations (e.g. economic collapse to global catastrophic risks). [1] This allows for the adaptation and growth of a community after disaster strikes. [2]
A man-made disaster in eastern Brazil in the late 1970s helped prompt the World Bank to adopt its first systematic protections for people living in the footprint of big projects. Rising waters upstream from the Sobradinho Dam, built with World Bank financing, forced more than 60,000 people from their homes.
GFDRR is a grant-funding mechanism allocating financing and providing technical assistance through thematic and country specific programs [4] with a focus on disaster risk financial protection, resilient infrastructures, cities, hydromet services and access to disaster risk information. GFDRR is also the author of several publications ...
Recovery & Resilience: Economic development planning or implementation projects that build economic resilience to and long-term recovery from economic shocks, like those experienced by coal and power plant communities, or other communities impacted by the decline of an important industry or a natural disaster, that may benefit from economic ...