Expert collaboration to support disaster risk financing: Developing new models and views of risk

October 28, 2020 2:00 pm Published by Leave a comment

  

Expert collaboration to support disaster risk financing: Developing new models and views of risk

Organizer: AIR Worldwide

Progress towards closing the protection gap will require collaboration between experts across disciplines, organizations, and geographies to quickly develop and deploy new models. This session will review successful case studies to demonstrate the benefits of this expert collaboration, as well as introducing tools that can be used to support the development of models in regions not traditionally modeled by the large modeling firms.

Speakers:
Daniel Raizman, Manager, Global Resilience
Stelios Minas, Risk Consultant

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Virtual site visit: Green infrastructure and nature-based solutions for urban flood resilience in Singapore

October 28, 2020 1:56 pm Published by Leave a comment

  

Virtual site visit: Green infrastructure and nature-based solutions for urban flood resilience in Singapore

Organizer: World Bank – Urban, Disaster Risk Management (DRM), Resilience, and Land GP; World Bank – Urban Floods Community of Practice (UFCOP); Public Utilities Board (PUB) Singapore; National University of Singapore (NUS)

The objective of this technical session is to explore the benefits of integrated nature-based solutions (NBS) in the design of stormwater infrastructure in Singapore as part of the Active, Beautiful, Clean Waters (ABC Waters) Programme. PUB, Singapore’s national water agency, will be sharing 4 projects that demonstrate solutions to (1) mitigate the impact of heavy storms, such as multi-use floodplains; (2) detain and treat stormwater runoff; and (3) achieve social and environmental co-benefits. Given COVID-19 movement restrictions, instead of actual site visits, the session will be facilitated by World Bank, PUB and NUS experts using interactive 360° photos of 4 ABC Waters projects within the Kallang River catchment.

Speakers:
Ming Zhang, Practice Manager (East Asia Pacific Region), World Bank Urban, DRM, Resilience and Land Global Practice
Dixi Mengote-Quah, Infrastructure Specialist, World Bank Urban, DRM, Resilience and Land Global Practice
Geok Ling Cheng, Chief Engineer (Urban Liveability), PUB – Singapore’s National Water Agency, Catchments and Waterways Department
Huei Lyn Liu, Senior Landscape Architect (Urban Liveability), PUB – Singapore’s National Water Agency, Catchments and Waterways Department
Kenya Endo, Lecturer, National University of Singapore (NUS) – School of Design & Environment


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Getting hotter? Screening public investment projects for climate change using digital mapping platforms

October 28, 2020 1:54 pm Published by Leave a comment

  

Getting hotter? Screening public investment projects for climate change using digital mapping platforms

Organizer: Singapore Swiss Technical University Centre

The session presents the insights gained from combining an institutional public investment management lens with an on-line applied digital mapping technology screening. The session will engage on the why, what and how urban rural (ur) scape, a geospatial planning support tool developed by the Singapore Swiss Technical University (ETH) Centre to support user-centric data analytics and visualization for information resilience strategies – building on a gaming technology engine.The approach serves to make more explicit at the upstream stage the expected footprint of a given physical infrastructure project, while allowing for this to be overlaid on a new generation of climate change risk related layers. Increasingly granular global risk layer feeds — including those leveraging satellite technologies and Artificial Intelligence (AI) — are making contexts more explicit, even in relatively data scarce developing country settings. While subject to a number of constraints and caveats, this entry point provides practical suggestions as to where planning, finance, sectoral, and sub-national authorities can already be leveraging user-friendly and cost-effective digital platforms and complementary data acquisition and validation efforts for applied decision support.

Speakers:
Dr Jonas Joerin, Co-​Director of Future Resilient Systems
Dr Yi Wang, Postdoctoral Researcher, People and Operations in Resilient Systems
Michael Joos, Software Engineer

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Earthquake disaster preparedness through public engagement

October 28, 2020 1:52 pm Published by Leave a comment

  

Earthquake disaster preparedness through public engagement

Organizer: Miyamoto International in collaboration with the University of Tokyo (Disaster Management Training Center)

If you cannot imagine it, you cannot prepare for it. Using the disaster imagination tool developed by distinguished Professor Meguro at University of Tokyo, a leading hub of innovation around disaster risk reduction and management, participants in this dynamic and interactive workshop will be led through realistic disaster scenarios to personally visualize, plan, prepare and support stakeholders in active recovery and response.

Speakers:
Dr. H. Kit Miyamoto, President & CEO, Miyamoto International
Dr. Kimiro Meguro, Professor, The University of Tokyo
Sabine Kast, Director, International Programs, Miyamoto International
Elizabeth Petheo, Principal, Miyamoto International
Lucienne Cross, Senior Communication Specialist, Miyamoto International

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Nature-based solutions for flood risk management in Asia: How much do we know?

October 28, 2020 1:50 pm Published by Leave a comment

  

Nature-based solutions for flood risk management in Asia: How much do we (Not) know?

Organizer: Nanyang Technological University

Investments in nature are increasingly considered as solutions to manage flood risk. Yet understanding when and how nature-based solutions can effectively mitigate flooding remains challenging, especially in many Asian cities where the evidence base for nature-based solutions is weaker. This session will bring multiple perspectives to identify barriers to the implementation of nature-based solutions for flood risk mitigation in the region. Do we need more science? more capacity-building? more funding? more political will? Participants will be be guided through an interactive dialogue with academics and practitioners working in the region to understand the key knowledge gaps and implementation gaps in the area.

Speakers:
Blair Spendelow, Technical Director, JBA
Missaka Hettiarachchi, Senior Fellow, WWF
Kim Irvine, Visiting Associate Professor

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Global risk narrative and cultural influence on risk perceptions

October 28, 2020 1:47 pm Published by Leave a comment

  

Global risk narrative and cultural influence on risk perceptions

Thursday, Dec 03, UTC 03:00 to 04:55

Organizer: Lloyd’s Register Foundation Institute for the Public Understanding of Risk, National University of Singapore

How does individual-level risk perception differ from that of society? What role does culture play in shaping our risk attitude? Answering these questions will enable policymaker and industry leaders to tailor risk communication strategies to achieve better public communication and policy outcome. This session presents computational linguistics analytics results of societal risk narratives from 20 countries and how they differ from individuals’ risk perception reflected in the Lloyd’s Register Foundation World Risk Poll. Moreover, novel insights from the largest cross-cultural study that examined the effect of culture on the extent to which people experience and perceive risk across 86 countries will be shared during the session. Lloyd’s Register’s Foundation World Risk Poll is a global survey that covers a representative sample of 98% of the world’s adult population on the most pressing risks faced and feared by individuals in their daily lives.

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Racism, Exclusion & Risk: Harnessing Humor for Hard Conversations

October 28, 2020 1:44 pm Published by Leave a comment

  

Racism, Exclusion & Risk: Harnessing Humor for Hard Conversations

Wednesday, Dec 02, UTC 02:00 to 02:55

Organizer: GFDRR

The widespread prevalence of racism in our society and institutions shapes disaster risks. Mechanisms of differentiation based on race are determinants in the social construction of vulnerability and exposure, perpetuating systemic patterns of exclusion and privilege. By overlooking reality, people and organizations often fail to notice racism, or anticipate the risks this can engender and entrench. We can do something about it…  But how to initiate constructive conversations on the difficult intersection of race and risk?  Humor can help.
 
Join this interactive “cartoonathon” session to confront what’s unacceptable yet accepted. We will have and co-create serious fun with cartoon artists Emily Flake, Feggo and Yasin Osman, guided by risk-taker Pablo Suarez. The cartoons emerging from your input during this session will feed into UR2020’s concluding plenary on anti-racism, inclusion and resilience.

This Community Session has been organized by the Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery and the World Bank’s Social Sustainability and Inclusion Global Practice.
It builds off a World Bank Anti-Racism workshop developed by World Bank’s Social Sustainability and Inclusion Global Practice.

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AIESEC: Rebuilding a Youthtopia

October 28, 2020 1:42 pm Published by Leave a comment

  

AIESEC: Rebuilding a Youthtopia

Organizer: AIESEC in National University of Singapore

WELCOME ALL!
Our AIESEC in NUS X UR2020 interactive exhibition would be featuring numerous organisations who have individually made a widespread impact on the lives of youth in Singapore and beyond. The Youth, particularly the Gen Z are poised to be the largest generation globally by 2026 and not only do they command a huge population but they are the driving factor of innovation, consumption and the world’s future leaders. However, their glowing potential and successes as a generation oftentimes eclipses the silent struggles they face everyday in their workplace, academics and within their social circles. Nonetheless, all the organisations present here in this event in various ways have played their part in improving the lives of all Youths and alleviating the societal pressures Youths face on a daily basis. Along with their sharing today, together with them and everyone of YOU – Let’s rebuild a YOUTHtopia! AIESEC in NUS proposes to create an online gallery tour using Artsteps. The gallery will showcase initiatives by youth organisations and companies in Singapore. This activity helps to retain the interactive element as participants are able to virtually roam around the various booths alike to a real life experience. After visiting the booths, participants can enter the breakout rooms in Zoom to clarify their doubts as well as network and connect with like minded companies and organisations.

Speakers:
Titus Ang, Training Consultant and CHO

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Understanding Risk Financing and Assessment: Living Case Studies

October 28, 2020 1:28 pm Published by Leave a comment

  

Understanding Risk Financing and Assessment: Living Case Studies

Organizer: The World Bank Group – Disaster Risk Financing and Insurance Program

This session will feature a series of short interventions focusing on different aspects of Risk Assessment. We will be showcasing living case studies through a series of “Paired Ignites”. The first speaker will provide the overarching technical concept and the second speaker will present ‘living case study’ to correspond with the topic. Participants will have the opportunity to join small group discussions with ignite presenters.

Speakers:
Kaavya Ashok Krishna, Knowledge Management Officer, World Bank Group
Sumati Rajput, Financial Sector Specialist, World Bank Group
Benedikt Signer, Program Coordinator, World Bank Group
Tatiana Skalon, Disaster Risk Finance Specialist, World Bank Group
Cathy Ansell, Financial Sector Specialist, World Bank Group
Gary Rynsard, Executive Director and Board Member, SEADRIF Co
Antoine Bavandi, Senior Financial Sector Specialist, World Bank Group
Peijing Li, Knowledge Management Analyst, World Bank Group
Stephanie Allan, Senior Public Finance Management Specialist, Oxford Policy Management
Dayna Connolly, Public Finance Management Specialist, Oxford Policy Management, Water Resource Expert & AVP (Sustainability), RMSI Pvt. Ltd. (India)

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Break to Code – From Earth Sciences to Building Standards

July 23, 2020 1:22 pm Published by Leave a comment

  

 

Break to Code – From Earth Sciences to Building Standards

 

Showcasing, demonstrating and launching a tool-kit

Landslides are complex hazards that affect many areas of the world and cause significant loss of life and damage. Landslide early warning systems provide an opportunity to generate information in advance of such events, allowing for early actions that can reduce risks and impacts of these hazards. However, landslide early warning systems vary widely in approaches, scale, and many case studies are non-operational. There are also no existing holistic guidance resources for countries considering implementing landslide early warning systems. This session will provide an overview of landslide early warning systems from both a technical and operational/practical perspective, drawing on experiences and knowledge across the globe and case studies of Nepal and India from the Science for Humanitarian Emergencies and Resilience programme (SHEAR). Both slope and regional scale landslide early warning systems will be covered in a marketplace format to encourage discussions and tailored sharing of knowledge aligned with participants’ interests and needs. The essential value of a combined approach across physical science, social science and practitioners will be emphasised in order to achieve an operational, sustainable system.The session will also test launch a new guidance resource for setting up and implementing landslide early warning systems, getting feedback from the participants to ensure the guide provides appropriate and comprehensive information for stakeholders embarking on landslide early warning.

Organizer: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Tuna Onur (Member-Canadian Building Code Committee)

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