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Scalable and replicable case studies to prevent disasters.

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A catalogue of evidence-based practices to reduce disaster risk.

Concrete innovations, inventions, and strategies are reducing the impacts of disasters worldwide. These practical case studies and proven strategies address various aspects of disaster risk.

The documented successes, measurable achievements, avoided disasters, and tangible outcomes serve as lessons for those planning actions to enhance resilience, reduce vulnerability, and protect communities from the adverse effects of disasters.

The case studies you will find below encompass a wide range of practical DRR measures, including early warning systems, community-based initiatives, green and grey infrastructure improvements, policy implementations, and innovative technologies that have been applied and proven effective in real-world scenarios.

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Houses that can float could protect vulnerable people from flooding

This concept retrofits houses with flotation devices and tethers them to poles - allowing the house to rise with floodwaters and descend to their foundations when the flood subsides.

Can wildfire prevention offer sustainable business opportunities?

Because of climate change, wildfires are becoming more intense and frequent. Prevention measures often come with a hefty price tag. Across Europe, fire-smart solutions make wildfire prevention more sustainable, by offering ecological, economic and social benefits.

Rain-related early warning in Japan

“The risk is imminent” translates as KiKIKURU in Japanese. It’s the name of an innovative early warning system for rain-related hazards in Japan. KIKIKURU was developed by the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA). The system provides real-time hazard updates using a high spatial resolution of 1 km.

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Kraljevo's main square. Bojan Milinkov/Shutterstock
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Zdravko Maksimović, City of Kraljevo

Observe to predict, predict to prevent: Kraljevo's approach to DRR

Following two disasters, the city of Kraljevo, Serbia established a new disaster risk reduction framework, calling for the local community to take a more active role.
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Negotiated participatory action research for multi-stakeholder implementation of early warning systems for landslides

The Dynaslope project of the Department of Science and Technology - Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (PHIVOLCS) operates an early warning system for deep-seated landslides (EWS-L) to increase resilience of communities at risk.
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How weather forecasts are changing lives in Kenya and Tanzania

When extreme weather is increasingly common, it can be life-saving to know what's coming.
Global Citizen
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Released: Impact results from Africa’s most inclusive city climate, weather & early warning service

DARAJA* shows how lives have improved in two East African cities, Nairobi and Dar es Salaam through a stunning set of impact results.
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The amphibious housing unit during floods. CORE Bangladesh research team.
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M. Shah Alam Khan, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology

Bangladesh: Living with the floods on floating houses

In this interview, Professor M. Shah Alam Khan explains how amphibious housing can help populations in Bangladesh cope with reoccurring floods.
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Denis Mc Clean, Chief, Communications and Outreach, United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction

What’s changed since the 1970 Great Bhola Cyclone

I have never witnessed before, or since, anything like the scale of destruction that I saw from a helicopter flying along Bangladesh’s coastline in May 1991, some days after one of the most powerful tropical cyclones ever recorded.
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Disaster risk reduction and disaster risk management
The policy objective of anticipating and reducing risk is called disaster risk reduction (DRR). Disaster risk management (DRM) can be thought of as the implementation of DRR, since it describes the actions that aim to achieve the objective of reducing risk.

Developing local-level solutions

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MCR2030 is a place where cities can find guidance and support to enhance understanding on risk reduction and resilience, to improve strategic planning to reduce risk and build resilience, and to take actions and progress along the resilience roadmap.

See below news from cities that have taken the leap to reduce disaster risk.

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