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Disaster Risk Management

Disaster risk management involves strategies to prevent, reduce, and manage disaster risks, enhancing resilience and minimizing losses. It includes prospective, corrective, and compensatory actions, focusing on future risk avoidance, current risk reduction, and strengthening resilience against unavoidable risks. Community-based approaches emphasize local involvement and the integration of traditional knowledge in disaster risk assessments and management planning.

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Disaster Risk Management

Disaster risk management involves strategies to prevent, reduce, and manage disaster risks, enhancing resilience and minimizing losses. It includes prospective, corrective, and compensatory actions, focusing on future risk avoidance, current risk reduction, and strengthening resilience against unavoidable risks. Community-based approaches emphasize local involvement and the integration of traditional knowledge in disaster risk assessments and management planning.

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Disaster risk management

Disaster risk management is the application of disaster risk reduction policies and strategies to
prevent new disaster risk, reduce existing disaster risk and manage residual risk, contributing to
the strengthening of resilience and reduction of disaster losses.

Disaster risk management actions can be distinguished between prospective disaster risk
management, corrective disaster risk management and compensatory disaster risk
management, also called residual risk management.

Prospective disaster risk management activities address and seek to avoid the development
of new or increased disaster risks. They focus on addressing disaster risks that may develop in
future if disaster risk reduction policies are not put in place. Examples are better land-use
planning or disaster-resistant water supply systems.

Corrective disaster risk management activities address and seek to remove or reduce
disaster risks which are already present and which need to be managed and reduced now.
Examples are the retrofitting of critical infrastructure or the relocation of exposed populations or
assets.
Compensatory disaster risk management activities strengthen the social and economic
resilience of individuals and societies in the face of residual risk that cannot be effectively
reduced. They include preparedness, response and recovery activities, but also a mix of
different financing instruments, such as national contingency funds, contingent credit, insurance
and reinsurance and social safety nets.
Community-based disaster risk management promotes the involvement of potentially
affected communities in disaster risk management at the local level. This includes community
assessments of hazards, vulnerabilities and capacities, and their involvement in planning,
implementation, monitoring and evaluation of local action for disaster risk reduction.
Local and indigenous peoples’ approach to disaster risk management is the recognition
and use of traditional, indigenous and local knowledge and practices to complement scientific
knowledge in disaster risk assessments and for the planning and implementation of local
disaster risk management.

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