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- This document focuses on the importance of developing risk management approaches, methods, and tools for carrying out risk, vulnerability, and disaster impact assessments. It highlights their critical role in identifying the causes of disaster, making them visible to the public and policymakers, and providing the evidence base for the effective and efficient implementation of disaster risk reduction (DRR) initiatives. The document “Visions of Risk” makes clear from the beginning that managing disaster risk is not the same as managing disasters. The caveat refers to the often invisible nature of risk factors. The focus should be placed on the root causes of disasters, and how to reduce human and economic exposure/vulnerability. The report assesses the contributions of three indexing initiatives focused on assessing global disaster risk and risk factors: the Disaster Risk Indexing project (DRI), the Hotspots indexing project, and the Americas Programme. The DRI contributes to the existing data in disasters as the first global view of human vulnerability with national resolution. The index identifies key socio-economic indicators for national human vulnerability for individual hazard types. Hotspots is an effort to create three indexes of disaster risk and mapped global disaster risk with sub-national resolution for individual hazard types. Finally, the Americas Programme combines assessments for individual hazards. “Visions of Risk” emphasizes the differences in aims and scope of the three indexes. While the DRI is geared towards indexing vulnerability and development processes that contribute to vulnerable conditions, Hotspots is aimed at mapping natural disaster hotspots with a special focus on mortality and economic loss. The scope is also varied among the three initiatives. The DRI is global in scope, with a national level resolution. Hotspots is also global, but has a sub-national resolution. In regard to the targets of these efforts, there are also some differences that need to be taken into account. DRI is aimed at national and international policy-makers. HOTSPOTS is aimed at the international community, but remains relevant to national and sub-national planning. Finally, the Americas Programme is targeted at national decision makers as well as international agencies supporting risk management in the Americas region. ( English )
- Subject:
- General Risk Management ( English )
- Scope and Content:
- Development ( English )
- Scope and Content:
- Foreword by Sálvano Briceño – Director ISDR secretariat. Preface by Andrew Maskrey – Chair ISDR/IATF Working Group 3 p. i; Authors Acknowledgements p. iii; Abbreviations p. v; Contents p. vii; Figures and Tables p. ix; Executive Summary p. 1; Introduction p. 9; The indicator programmes p. 9; Working Group Three p. 10; What are indicators and indexes? p. 11; Disaster risk indicators and indexing in context p. 12; The structure of the report p. 14; The Indexing and Indicators Programmes p. 15; The DRI programme p. 15; Hotspots p. 16; The Americas programme p. 17; Global Disaster Risk and its Management p. 21; The DRI programme p. 21; Hotspots p. 23; The Americas programme p. 28; Looking Ahead p. 33; Future possibilities for individual indexing programmes p. 34; Potential for future collaboration p. 35; Recommendations p. 41; Appendix 1: Bibliography p. 45; Appendix 2: Data sources p. 47; Appendix 3: DRI vulnerability indicators p. 51; Appendix 4: Data development p. 53; Figures and Tables: Figure 1: Physical exposure to floods, 1980-2000 p. 21; Figure 2: Relative vulnerability for flooding, 1980-2000 p. 22; Figure 3: Differences between multi-hazard DRI and observed disaster mortality p. 23; Figure 4: Global distribution of flood mortality risk p. 24; Figure 5: Global distribution of flood economic risk p. 25; Figure 6: Global distribution of flood economic risk as a proportion of GDP p. 25; Figure 7: The global distribution of risk by mortality, by hazard type p. 26; Figure 8: The global distribution of risk by economic loss, by hazard type p. 26; Figure 9: The global distribution of risk by economic loss as a proportion of GDP, by hazard type p. 27; Figure 10: National financial exposure to catastrophic disaster p. 28; Figure 11: Loss from locally and nationally recognised disasters, 1996-2000 p. 29; Figure 12: Socioeconomic vulnerability in the Americas, 2000 p. 30; Figure 13: Disaster risk management performance in the Americas, 2000 p. 31; Table 1: Comparing the index approaches p. 33 ( English )
- Citation/Reference:
- Pelling, M. (2004). Visions of risk: a review of international indicators of disaster risk and its management. United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (UNISDR), United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).
- General Note:
- A Report for the ISDR Inter-Agency Task force on Disaster Reduction Working Group 3:
Risk, Vulnerability and Disaster Impact Assessment
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