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Challenges with Disaster Mortality Data and Measuring Progress Towards the Implementation of the Sendai Framework

International Journal of Disaster Risk Science, 2019
Disasters exact a heavy toll globally. However, the degree to which we can accurately quantify their impact, in particular mortality, remains challenging.
Helen K. Green, Oliver Lysaght, Dell D. Saulnier, Kevin Blanchard, Alistair Humphrey, Bapon Fakhruddin, Virginia Murray   +6 more
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MANTRA: Improving Knowledge of Maternal Health, Neonatal Health, and Geohazards in Women in Rural Nepal Using a Mobile Serious Game

Frontiers in Public Health, 2020
Serious games, conveying educational knowledge rather than merely entertainment, are a rapidly expanding research domain for cutting-edge educational technology.
Sonja Mueller, Sonja Mueller, Delphine Soriano, Delphine Soriano, Andrei Boscor, Andrei Boscor, Naomi M. Saville, Abriti Arjyal, Sushil Baral, Maureen Fordham, Maureen Fordham, Gareth Hearn, Rachya Kayastha, Rachya Kayastha, Patty Kostkova, Patty Kostkova   +15 more
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A review of public acceptance of nature-based solutions: The ‘why’, ‘when’, and ‘how’ of success for disaster risk reduction measures

Ambio, 2021
Nature-based solutions (NbS) are increasingly recognized as sustainable approaches to address societal challenges. Disaster risk reduction (DRR) has benefited by moving away from purely ‘grey’ infrastructure measures towards NbS. However, this shift also
Carl C. Anderson, F. Renaud
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The missing half of the Sendai framework: Gender and women in the implementation of global disaster risk reduction policy

Progress in Disaster Science, 2021
The Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015–2030 (SFDRR) is the guiding international policy structure for disaster risk reduction activities, shaping DRR strategies and practices across the world.
R. Z. Zaidi, M. Fordham
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The Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction and Its Indicators—Where Does Health Fit in?

International Journal of Disaster Risk Science, 2017
The Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015–2030 recognizes the strong connection between health and disasters and promotes the concept of health resilience throughout.
Rishma Maini, Lorcan Clarke, Kevin Blanchard, Virginia Murray   +3 more
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Social protection in disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation: A bibliometric and thematic review

Journal Of Integrative Environmental Sciences, 2022
Social protection has emerged as a strategy to minimize climate change impacts by building the resilience of vulnerable communities. It is increasingly being used in disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation.
I. Rana, Sifullah Khaled, A. Jamshed, Adnan Nawaz   +3 more
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A Likert Scale-Based Model for Benchmarking Operational Capacity, Organizational Resilience, and Disaster Risk Reduction

International Journal of Disaster Risk Science, 2020
Likert scales are a common methodological tool for data collection used in quantitative or mixed-method approaches in multiple domains. They are often employed in surveys or questionnaires, for benchmarking answers in the fields of disaster risk ...
Gianluca Pescaroli, Omar Velazquez, Irasema Alcántara-Ayala, Carmine Galasso, Patty Kostkova, David Alexander   +5 more
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Disaster Risk Reduction

, 2020
Disaster risk reduction (DRR, or disaster reduction) is an umbrella term for processes of preparing for, responding to, recovering from, and managing the risk of disasters. It refers primarily to the acts of setting the policy and strategic agendas for these tasks.
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Why Does Community-Based Disaster Risk Reduction Fail to Learn from Local Knowledge? Experiences from Malawi

Social Science Research Network, 2022
It is often taken as given that community-based disaster risk reduction (CBDRR) serves 5 as a mechanism for the inclusion of local knowledge (LK) in disaster risk reduction 6 (DRR).
R. Šakić Trogrlić, Melanie J. Duncan, G. Wright, Marc J. C. van den Homberg, A. Adeloye, F. Mwale   +5 more
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United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR)—UNISDR’s Contribution to Science and Technology for Disaster Risk Reduction and the Role of the International Consortium on Landslides (ICL)Open image in new window

, 2017
The Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015–2030 was agreed at the Third UN World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction in Sendai, Japan in March 2015 and endorsed by the UN General Assembly in June 2015.
C. Wannous, German Velásquez
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