Fragility and conflict

Disaster risk reduction in a context of exposure to risk combined with insufficient coping capacity of the state, system and/or communities to manage, absorb or mitigate those risks.

Latest Fragility and conflict additions in the Knowledge Base

Documents and publications

A fully illustrated book Real Risk offers perspectives, case studies and analysis on disaster risk reduction and mitigation in the light of major natural disasters that have occurred since the publication of Know Risk in early 2005. It brings together the

Tudor Rose
Documents and publications

This book provides guidance, policy orientation and inspiration, as well as serving as a reference for lessons on how to reduce risk and vulnerability to hazards and to meet the challenges of tomorrow. It is intended for people who have an interest in and

United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR)
Documents and publications

This report is a compilation of case studies and grapples with the crucial question of merging disaster management education into the broader agenda of education for sustainable development.

United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization - Headquarters
Graduate School of Global Environmental Studies, Kyoto University 地球環境学堂・地球環境学舎・三才学林
Documents and publications

This document is the result of a participatory process developed from April to December 2003, through national workshops and forums of analysis and proposals in the different countries of the Central American region.

Centro de Coordinación para la Prevención de los Desastres en América Central
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
Documents and publications

This manual provides the guidelines to create a new approach to cultural heritage conservation focused on prevention, aiming to develop strategies to protect heritage properties by reducing its vulnerability to disasters.

United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization - Headquarters
International Council on Monuments and Sites, International Committee on Risk Preparedness
International Centre for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property
Covid-19: a risk context magazine

The COVID-19 pandemic has shown the fragility of our global networks. A health crisis has shocked economies, policies, governance, trade, infrastructure. In short, it has changed today’s society and may well leave a significant mark on the shaping of

United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction – Regional Office for the Americas and the Caribbean
Uploaded on

Is this page useful?

Yes No
Report an issue on this page

Thank you. If you have 2 minutes, we would benefit from additional feedback (link opens in a new window).