David Bresch

Discussion 1: Access to Risk Information & Resilience Solutions
As a specific way of disseminating knowledge and sharing risk assessment tools, see www.iac.ethz.ch/edu/courses/master/modules/climate_risk with an open-source climate adaptation tool directly available here https://github.com/davidnbresch/climada

Comment by David Bresch April 2014
Discussion 1: Financial Reform & Disaster Risk = Business Opportunity
Adaptation measures are available to make societies more resilient to the impacts of climate change. But decision makers need the facts to identify the most cost-effective investments. Such decision makers ask: 1) What is the potential climate-relat…

Comment by David Bresch April 2014
How do we:
- motivate Local Government leaders to invest in DRR and resilience
- encourage national actions to improve DRR implementation at local level
- enhance collaboration between citizen groups and local governments for effective risk reduction
In the DRR context, it's not enough to focus on risk today, economic development and - last but not least - climate change do render the challenge more complex but also offer opportunities to re-frame the challenge. That's why I propose an…

Comment by David Bresch March 2013

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