What is Understanding Risk?
UR is a global community of experts and practitioners with interest in the field of disaster risk identification, specifically risk assessment and risk communication.
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Results-driven Initiatives Events
Check out all the events happening in the UR community.
Join us May 14-18, 2018 in Mexico City, Mexico for the fifth global UR forum. Únete a nosotros del 14-18 de mayo en la Ciudad de México, México para el quinto foro global UR.
May 14 - 18, 2018
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Mexico City, Mexico
Belgrade, Serbia
17-19 September 2018
The UR+ Balkans Conference will convene leading experts and practitioners from diverse sectors to consider the future of risk, climate change, and resilience in the region.
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
August 29 – 31, 2018
Urban Resilience for Tanzania. URTZ 2018 will focus on the understanding of urban risk – showcasing new spatial tools and risk data developed in Tanzania that can empower stakeholders to identify and reduce risks.
Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
April 16-17, 2018
Toward a Resilient British Columbia: Implementing strategies to reduce natural hazard risk in BC's Built Environment. April 16 & 17, 2018, at the Victoria Conference Centre.
Initiatives
Explore exciting initiatives run by members of the UR community that help to advance the field of disaster risk identification.
Code for Resilience (CfR) fosters a global community of citizens, governments, and technologists using open innovation, open data, and open software and hardware tools to identify and reduce the risks posed by natural disasters.
The Open Data for Resilience Initiative (OpenDRI) applies the concepts of the global open data movement to the challenges of reducing vulnerability to natural hazards and the impacts of climate change.
Resources
Take advantage of our resource library with the latest journal articles, publications and tools related to the UR community.
In order to understand how UR can better serve the community, the managing team commissioned an independent evaluation of the community and its activities.
The Understanding Risk (UR) community met in May 2016 for the fourth iteration of the global forum, bringing together a diverse group of people from the private, public, nonprofit, technology, nongovernmental, and financial sectors.
News
New blogs and other exciting news items are posted regularly.
The impact of extreme weather on poverty is far more devastating than previously understood—outstripping all other estimates by as much as 60%. We can do much more to protect poor people from the shocks of natural disasters, which, as the report shows, cost the global economy $520 billion and force some 26 million people into poverty every year.
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