"#Webinar: #Donkeys as Agents of #Drought #Resilience"
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#DisastersAreNotNatural #NoNaturalDisasters (avoid the phrases #NaturalDisaster #NaturalDisasters) #DRR #DisasterRiskReduction #DisasterRiskManagement #disaster #disasters #donkey #droughts #equids

Can risk be managed without measuring it? Many risks require measurement for management. Just not all of them.

"Can risk be managed without measuring it?"
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@preventionweb.bsky.social @undrr.bsky.social

#DisastersAreNotNatural #NoNaturalDisasters (avoid the phrases #NaturalDisaster #NaturalDisasters) #DRR #DisasterRiskReduction #Risk #RiskManagement #RiskReduction

AJEM January 2026 - Disasters are not natural: review of Disasters By Choice: How our Actions turn Natural Hazards into Catastrophes | Australian Disaster Resilience Knowledge Hub ‘It’s just semantics’. I hear this often when the topic comes up of disasters not being natural, so why do we persist calling them natural disasters? It is more than semantics.

Thank you for a new review of "Disaster by Choice" knowledge.aidr.org.au/resources/aj...

-"Disaster by Choice" global.oup.com/academic/pro...
-"Katastrophen aus Menschenhand" doi.org/10.1007/978-...

#DisastersAreNotNatural #NoNaturalDisasters (avoid phrases #NaturalDisaster #NaturalDisasters) #DRR

No Natural Disasters, featuring Professor Ilan Kelman Professor Ilan Kelman argues that human decisions, governance failures and societal inequities determine the impact of catastrophic events.

New #podcast:
#NoNaturalDisasters
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@uclpress.bsky.social @uclrdr.bsky.social @uclwrc.bsky.social @uclglobalhealth.bsky.social
#disaster #disasters #DisastersAvoided #DisastersAreNotNatural #DRR #DisasterRiskReduction #DRM #DisasterRiskManagement #Climate #ClimateChange

Is nature angry with us? To avoid disasters, our actions ought to be about cooperating and living with nature – and with each other – without harm, including without harming ourselves. We should recognise and implement the wo...

"Is nature angry with us?"
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@undrr.bsky.social
#DisastersAreNotNatural #NoNaturalDisasters (avoid the phrases #NaturalDisaster #NaturalDisasters) #DRR #DisasterRiskReduction #DisasterRisk #RiskReduction #DisasterRiskManagement #disaster #disasters

The Disasters Avoided Newsletter - Edition 11 (November 2025)

#DisastersAvoided Newsletter 11
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#DRR #DisastersAreNotNatural #NoNaturalDisasters (avoid the phrases #NaturalDisaster #NaturalDisasters) #vulnerability #resilience #SendaiFramework #Switch2Sendai #SFDRR #DisasterRisk #DisasterRiskReduction #disaster #disasters #risk

Working Equids in Disasters: Local Concerns and Inspirations Brooke Action for Working Horses and Donkeys is an international animal welfare charity dedicated to improving the lives of working equids, including during and after disasters. Now, Brooke seeks to p...

Open access chapter:
Working #Equids in #Disasters
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#DisastersAreNotNatural #NoNaturalDisasters (avoid the phrases #NaturalDisaster #NaturalDisasters) #DRR #DisasterRiskReduction #DisasterRisk #RiskReduction #DisasterRiskManagement #disaster #AnimalsDisasters #DisastersAnimals

Warning Research Centre newsletter
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#EWS #WarningSystems #Warning #Warnings #EarlyWarning #EarlyWarningSystems #EW4All #DRR #DisasterRiskReduction #DisasterRiskManagement #DisastersAreNotNatural #NoNaturalDisasters (avoid the phrases #NaturalDisaster #NaturalDisasters)

Operational Ethics for Researching Geohazards Researching and publishing on geohazards can be hazardous to researchers and to others, leading to operational ethics concerns about balancing the need for geohazards research and the need for everyon...

"Operational #Ethics for Researching #Geohazards" doi.org/10.1007/978-...

#Geoethics #ResearchEthics #EthicalResearch #ScienceEthics #DRR #DisasterRiskReduction #DisasterRiskManagement #DisastersAreNotNatural #NoNaturalDisasters (avoid the phrases #NaturalDisaster #NaturalDisasters).

Floodscapes for Inland Waterscapes: Floods do not need to mean disasters — Shima (ISSN: 1834-6057) Shima (ISSN: 1834-6057) is a double blind, peer-refereed open-access journal published by Shima Publishing (Australia). Shima is SCOPUS indexed has been registered with the Directory of Open Access Jo...

New #PhotoEssay:
"Floodscapes for Inland Waterscapes: #Floods do not need to mean #disasters"
doi.org/10.21463/shi...

#PhotoEssays #DisastersAreNotNatural #NoNaturalDisasters (avoid the phrases #NaturalDisaster #NaturalDisasters) #DRR #Flood #FloodRisk #FloodManagement #DisastersAvoided #ArtScience

The Disasters Avoided Newsletter - Edition 10 (September 2025)

Disasters Avoided Newsletter 10:
#disasters and the #climate
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#DisastersAvoided #DRR #DisastersAreNotNatural #NoNaturalDisasters (avoid the phrases #NaturalDisaster #NaturalDisasters) #SendaiFramework #Switch2Sendai #SFDRR #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency

Small States and International Law "Small States and International Law" published on 28 Aug 2025 by Brill | Nijhoff.

New book:
" #SmallStates and #InternationalLaw "
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My chapter "Disasters and Small States".

#DisastersAreNotNatural #NoNaturalDisasters (avoid the phrases #NaturalDisaster #NaturalDisasters) #DRR #DisasterRiskReduction #DisasterRiskManagement #disaster #disasters

A meme asks "How much damage has extreme weather caused? 1993-2022 followed by graphs trying to attribute disaster losses to weather.

This meme should ask "What problems have oppression, marginalisation & discrimination caused during weather which otherwise could be dealt with?"
#DisastersAreNotNatural #NoNaturalDisasters (no #NaturalDisaster #NaturalDisasters) #DRR #ClimateChange #ClimateDisasters #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency

Psychosocial Impacts of Belgium’s 2021 Floods A recent paper offers insights into psychosocial flood impacts, examining the medium-term effects of Belgium’s 2021 flood disaster.

"Psychosocial Impacts of Belgium’s 2021 Floods"
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#DisasterPsychology #DRR #FloodRiskReduction #FloodRiskManagement #DisastersAreNotNatural #NoNaturalDisasters #Flood #Floods #Flooding #Belgium #Vesdre #VesdreValley #Meuse #RiverMeuse #Liège #Liege #psychology

The Disasters Avoided Newsletter - Edition 9 (July 2025)

Disasters Avoided Newsletter #9
Focus on #disaster #finance and #insurance
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#DisastersAvoided
#DRR #DisastersAreNotNatural #NoNaturalDisasters (avoid the phrases #NaturalDisaster #NaturalDisasters) #vulnerability #resilience #DisasterRisk #DisasterRiskReduction #disasters

Redirecting

New paper:
"From multi-hazard early #warning systems (#MHEWS) to all-vulnerability warning systems (AVWS)"
#OpenAccess doi.org/10.1016/j.is...

#EWS #WarningSystems #DRR #DisasterRiskReduction #EarlyWarningSystems #DisastersAreNotNatural #NoNaturalDisasters (no #NaturalDisaster #NaturalDisasters)

The opposite to #DisastersAvoided disastersavoided.com and saving money through #DRR doi.org/10.1016/j.ij...

#DisastersAreNotNatural #NoNaturalDisasters (avoid the phrases #NaturalDisaster #NaturalDisasters) #DisasterRiskReduction #DisasterRisk #RiskReduction #DisasterRiskManagement

Please note that we struggle with data availability, consistency, & credibility to demonstrate that disasters are "📈 in number & intensity" engelsbergideas.com/essays/when-...

#DRR #GPDRR2025 #GP2025 #DisastersAreNotNatural #NoNaturalDisasters (no #NaturalDisaster #NaturalDisasters) #DRR

When disaster strikes Disasters result from vulnerabilities in our social fabric and a lack of preparedness for new threats. Those with the fewest options have the most to lose.

Please note that we struggle with data availability, consistency, & credibility to demonstrate that disasters are becoming "more frequent and intense" engelsbergideas.com/essays/when-...

#DRR #GPDRR2025 #GP2025 #DisastersAreNotNatural #NoNaturalDisasters (no #NaturalDisaster #NaturalDisasters) #DRR

Vivir donde el fuego siempre vuelve La lucha contra los incendios ha dejado de centrarse exclusivamente en la extinción. Hoy se plantea desde una óptica más ambiciosa y estructural, en la que la innovación tecnológica, la participación ciudadana y la gestión territorial son imprescindibles.

Vivir donde el fuego siempre vuelve. www.agenciasinc.es/Reportajes/V... @evarodnieto.bsky.social #DRR #disaster #disasters #DisastersAreNotNatural #DisastersAvoided #resilience #vulnerability #DisasterRisk #wildfire #Smoke #Wildfires #incendio #forestales

Disasters Avoided Newsletter 8 - #urban #cities #towns
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Urban 2.0 Newsletter 2 - #resilience #DRR #DisastersAvoided
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#UrbanStudies #city #town #UrbanLife #DisastersAreNotNatural #NoNaturalDisasters (no #NaturalDisaster #NaturalDisasters)

Understanding and Addressing Disaster Risk | Who Speaks? Who Suffers? In Understanding and Addressing Disaster Risk, the authors explain how people modify the environment and exert power over each other in ways that make nature

Two #OpenAccess @uclopenscience.bsky.social books:
1. Understanding and Addressing #DisasterRisk
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2. #Development & #Disasters practicalactionpublishing.com/book/3006/de...

#DisastersAreNotNatural #NoNaturalDisasters (avoid the phrases #NaturalDisaster #NaturalDisasters) #DRR

Those of you who know me well have been subjected to my endless banging on about the invisibility of preventative action. Lucky old you!
@ilankelman.bsky.social is bringing it into the spotlight, in a disaster context. Awesome stuff.
#disastersarenotnatural
#disastersavoided

Disasters that never happened: Six preventive actions What if the next big flood, wildfire, or heatwave didn't make headlines? Not because it didn't happen, but because communities, governments and local authorities were so well-prepared that a disaster ...

"Disasters that never happened: 6 preventive actions" www.preventionweb.net/drr-communit...

#DisastersAvoided #DRR #DisastersAreNotNatural #NoNaturalDisasters (avoid the phrases #NaturalDisaster #NaturalDisasters) #SendaiFramework #Switch2Sendai #SFDRR
@preventionweb.bsky.social @undrr.bsky.social

The Disasters Avoided Newsletter - Edition 7 (March 2025)

Disasters Avoided Newsletter #7
Focus on Non-Governmental Org. #NGOs and Civil Society Org. #CSOs
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#DisastersAvoided #DRR #DisastersAreNotNatural #NoNaturalDisasters (avoid the phrases #NaturalDisaster #NaturalDisasters) #Switch2Sendai #DisasterRisk #DisasterRiskReduction

International Journal of Disaster Risk Science | Volume 16, issue 1 Volume 16, issue 1 articles listing for International Journal of Disaster Risk Science

The #SendaiFramework's 10th Birthday link.springer.com/journal/1375... & the launch www.ucl.ac.uk/risk-disaste...

#DRR #DisastersAreNotNatural #NoNaturalDisasters (avoid the phrases #NaturalDisaster #NaturalDisasters) #Switch2Sendai #SFDRR #DisasterRisk #DisasterRiskReduction #disaster #disasters

Master's Programmes Risk and disaster reduction, particularly within the contexts of dealing with uncertainty and increasing resilience, are high on local, national and international agendas.

Study for a disaster Master's degree at UCL, UK.
www.ucl.ac.uk/risk-disaste... for applications and funding.
Deadlines: Non-UK 4 April and UK 29 August.

#DisastersAreNotNatural #NoNaturalDisasters (do not use #NaturalDisaster #NaturalDisasters) #DRR #DisasterRiskReduction #DisasterRiskManagement

Gender, Disaster, and the Sendai Framework: A Decade of Progress? Join us to mark the Sendai Framework's 10th anniversary and the 6th anniversary of the UCL Centre for Gender and Disaster, exploring disaster risk reduction through a gender lens.

#Gender, #Disaster, and the #SendaiFramework
18 Mar. 1830-2100
UCL, UK, in-person
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#GenderDisaster #DisasterGender #SendaiFramework #Switch2Sendai #SFDRR #DisastersAreNotNatural #NoNaturalDisasters (do not use #NaturalDisaster #NaturalDisasters) #DisasterRiskReduction

"Katastrophen aus Menschenhand" doi.org/10.1007/978-...
The #German translation of "Disaster by Choice" global.oup.com/academic/pro...

#DisastersAreNotNatural #NoNaturalDisasters (avoid the phrases #NaturalDisaster #NaturalDisasters) #DRR #DisasterRiskReduction #DisasterRiskManagement #Katastrophen

The Disasters Avoided Newsletter - Edition 6 (January 2025)

Disasters Avoided Newsletter #6 with @ilankelman.bsky.social and Gareth Byatt: the role of businesses in disasters

#Business #Resilience #dana #valencia
#DisastersAvoided #DRR #DisasterRiskReduction
#DisasterRiskManagement #DisastersAreNotNatural
#disaster #disasters

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