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Resilience is in our hand

Source(s): Global Earthquake Model Foundation (GEM)
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Andrew Thomspon, former Global Catastrophe Risk & Insurance practice manager at Arup, answers some key questions about how to improve resilience and earthquake risk reduction worldwide. In this short interview, he underlines the importance of "getting knowledge about individual risks into the hands of people that can do something about it", so marginally referring to individual resilience, understandable and accessible risk information, open data.

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Hazards Earthquake
Themes Insurance and risk transfer Social impacts and social resilience
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