Disaster risk

Our research recognises that disaster risk and development are closely linked: it is development processes that largely determine who and what is exposed to risk as well how much, and how effectively they can respond. SEI works to integrate disaster risk reduction with equitable, sustainable and resilient development.

Enhancing resilience to extreme climate events: lessons from the 2015–2016 El Niño event in Asia and the Pacific

Other publication / This report summarizes the lessons learnt from the 2015-2016 El Niño event and represents a UN approach to put these lessons into practice.

6 September 2017 / About Adaptation and Disaster risk

Exploring gender inequality in the Lower Mekong Region: Creating a sub-national Gender Inequality Index (GII)

Perspective / SEI is developing a gender inequality index for Cambodia and Vietnam for better analysis of gender gaps and vulnerabilities in the Mekong Region.

29 August 2017 / About Disaster risk, Food and agriculture and Participation

Äspet beach in Kristianstad, Sweden. Photo credit: Fredrik Bong

Using participatory multi-criteria assessments for assessing disaster risk reduction measures

Journal article / A multi-criteria assessment (MCA) methodology developed through the Resilience Increasing Strategies for Coasts – Toolkit (RISC-KIT)

17 August 2017 / About Disaster risk, Participation and Public policy

Infographic: The Disaster Management Cycle, a circle of information that flows from section to section (not described here in full). The inner circle describes four phases: preparedness, response, recovery and prevention. The outer circle includes questions like, What was the impact of an event? Where are the hotspots? What are potential solutions?

Prevent climate risk in coasts, before it’s too late

Perspective / Viewing disaster risk reduction as an integrated chain of actions could help cities mitigate and adapt to climate risk and prevent our coasts from washing away.

7 July 2017 / About Adaptation, Climate services and Disaster risk

Green development and integrated risk governance

Journal article / Summary of the International Symposium on Integrated Governance of Large-scale Disaster and Economic Risks, held in Qianhai, Shenzhen, China, May 2017

26 June 2017 / About Disaster risk

Towards extended shared socioeconomic pathways: a combined participatory bottom-up and top-down methodology with results from the Barents region

Journal article / Presents a participatory method for generating locally relevant scenarios of future change nested in global climate. With results from the Barents region.

14 June 2017 / About Adaptation, Climate services, Disaster risk and Participation

New international centre of excellence on disaster risk unveiled at SEI Science Forum

Feature / As vulnerability to disaster in Asia increases, the SEI Asia centre will boost the contribution of science to tackling risk and meeting international targets.

8 June 2017 / About Cities, Disaster risk and Public policy

How do we prioritize when making decisions about development and disaster risk? A look at five key trade-offs

SEI brief / This brief outlines key trade-offs in decision-making on development and DRR at various governance levels

3 June 2017 / About Disaster risk

The Reducing Disaster Risk Cluster at SEI Asia

SEI brief / The Reducing Disaster Risk Cluster, based in the SEI Asia Centre, is a multi-disciplinary group of professionals with backgrounds in social and physical science

22 May 2017 / About Disaster risk