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Risk Academy, led by the Nexus Consortium · Hazards, Disasters and Resilience · Department of Disaster Risk Reduction and Early Warning

Preventing new risk, reducing existing risk and managing residual risk under Sendai

کەمکردنەوەی مەترسی کارەسات

Disaster risk reduction works on the three terms of risk at once: hazard, exposure and vulnerability, with capacity against them.

01سنوور

What the discipline covers

The subtopics its courses and تاقیگەکانی teach.

خولەکان
1 course open
ئاستەکان
L1 Introductory, L2 Intermediate
Labs
Exposure lab, Map lab, Network lab, Geo quiz, GeoAI lab
02نەخشەکان

Build a twin of any place

Search any place or open the world; the layers and generators follow disaster risk reduction on the planet map, the globe and in 3D.

The Kahramanmaras earthquake sequence of 2023: a flat plan of the faculty twin. Terrain 59 to 3,044 m; 2 reference earthquakes, M7.5 to M7.8; 3,643,786 people in the box, 2020; Earthquakes M4.5 and above, past week: read live when the 3D twin opens; USGS ShakeMap intensity contours: read live when the 3D twin opens. Contours every 500 metres from the elevation grid; population count 2020, worldpop 1 km as four classes per cell (edges 11, 47, 405); reference earthquakes as marks.
The Kahramanmaras earthquake sequence of 2023, Turkiye. Flat plan of the same data: relief, the two epicentres with magnitude and depth, the WorldPop count grid and the numbers below. The 3D twin opens on devices that can draw it, once its data and code have been checked.
  • Terrain 59 to 3,044 m
  • 2 reference earthquakes, M7.5 to M7.8
  • 3,643,786 people in the box, 2020
  • Earthquakes M4.5 and above, past week: read live when the 3D twin opens
  • USGS ShakeMap intensity contours: read live when the 3D twin opens
Credits and dates per layer are listed under the stage. Relief in the twin is exaggerated ×1.5 for legibility.

Drag to move, right drag or Shift with a drag to turn and tilt, Ctrl with the wheel to zoom. Keyboard: arrows move, Shift with arrows turn and tilt, + and – zoom, 0 resets, V steps through the views, Escape clears.

Flat plan of the same data: relief, the two epicentres with magnitude and depth, the WorldPop count grid and the numbers below. The 3D twin opens on devices that can draw it, once its data and code have been checked.

The boundaries, names and designations shown do not imply any judgement on the legal status of any territory, or any endorsement or acceptance of such boundaries. Countries: Natural Earth (public domain).

03The subject

The subject, methods and measures and debates and bodies

The field and its scope

For planners, حوکمڕانیی مەترسی officers, development practitioners and analysts who need to turn hazard, exposure and vulnerability information into strategies that prevent new risk and reduce the risk that exists.

04The method

From a loss curve to a benefit-cost ratio: how average annual loss, a discount rate and an investment decide whether risk reduction pays

A loss exceedance curve gives the loss at every return period; its integral is the average annual loss; a risk reduction measure lowers the curve; the avoided loss, discounted over the measure's life, against its cost gives the benefit-cost ratio a finance ministry asks for.

Sources: Shreve and Kelman, Does mitigation save? Reviewing cost-benefit analyses of disaster risk reduction (2014); Mechler, Reviewing estimates of the economic efficiency of disaster risk management (2016); Hallegatte, Vogt-Schilb, Bangalore and Rozenberg, Unbreakable: Building the Resilience of the Poor in the Face of Natural Disasters (2017); United Nations, Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015–2030 (2015).

05At a glance

At a glance, with 5 related topics

Disaster risk reduction at a glance

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Disaster risk reduction: 1 primary courses open, 2 in preparation and 4 also taught here, across 8 subtopics and 3 connected disciplines. Courses: RAF-101 L1 open, RAF-119 L1 in preparation, RAT-232 L2 in preparation, RAF-102 L1 also taught here, RAN-307 L2 also taught here, RAN-317 L2 also taught here, RAN-339 L3 also taught here.
Disaster risk reduction at a glance
  • Open, 1
  • In preparation, 2
  • Also taught here, 4
  • Subtopics, 8
Course codes from the curriculum; study levels L1 to L4.
Twin builderBuild a twin of any placeWorked example: the Kahramanmaras earthquake sequence of 2023 · 5 generators · 13 layers · 3 instruments
06Labs

How the subject is practised in labs

07کۆنسۆڵ

How Disaster risk reduction is taught, as a process you can run

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Process explorer

How Disaster risk reduction is taught

18 steps6 قۆناغ

08پراکتیک

Practice, learning and connections

How technology helps and what risk it brings

09بەشداری بکە

Take part in Hazards, Disasters and Resilience

لەوەوە دەست پێبکە کە کێیت.

10References

Core references and where to begin

Start with Wisner, then United Nations, then Lavell.

11پرسیارەکان

پرسیار، وەڵام و زاراوە سەرەکییەکان

ئایا خوێندن لێرە خۆڕاییە؟
بەڵێ. هەموو خول و کەرەستەیەکی فێربوونی Risk Academy، بە سەرکردایەتیی Nexus Consortium، خوێندنی خۆڕاییە، بە خێرایی خۆت یان لەگەڵ کۆمەڵێک. بەشداریی ئاسایی هیچ کرێیەکی نییە؛ کاری بە پارە، ڕاهێنانی کاری و زەمالەکان ڕێککەوتنی جیاوازن.
تەواوکردنی خولێک چیم پێدەدات؟
A completion record: the course, its version, the date and what was assessed, private by default and shared by you. It stacks into discipline, department and programme achievements. A record states what was studied and assessed and does not certify competence. A record is not a licence, a professional title or an employment status.
داتا و شوێنەکان لە کوێوە دێن؟
Every faculty teaches on a twin of a real place built from open data. Each layer carries its provider, licence and date, and every result on the Academy states its source. Maps and figures are indicators for teaching, never an assessment of a place.
How do I take part beyond the courses in disaster risk reduction?
خانەیەکی لێهاتوویی لە سێ تا حەوت کەس پێکبهێنە، ڕێڕەوێکی هاوبەش بخوێنە، ئەرکێکی سەرپەرشتیکراو لە National Working Groups وەربگرە، یان کۆمەڵێک لە دامەزراوەکەتەوە بهێنە. Open the page for organisations.

زاراوە سەرەکییەکان

دەستەواژە

Disaster risk

The potential loss of life, injury or damaged assets in a period, as a function of hazard, exposure, vulnerability and capacity.

دەستەواژە

لاوازی

The conditions that increase the susceptibility of people, assets or سیستەمانەی to the impacts of hazards.

دەستەواژە

توانا

The strengths and resources available to manage and reduce disaster risk and strengthen resilience.

دەستەواژە

مەترسیی ماوە

The disaster risk that remains even when effective risk reduction measures are in place.

Reportsبەشداری بکە

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کەمکردنەوەی مەترسی کارەسات

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The catalogue lists each course with its outcomes, تاقیگەکانی, hours and level.