UR2020 # Decision-making

   European Commission MISSION on Adaptation to Climate Change with Societal Transformation Organizer: Public Health England Partly inspired by the Apollo 11 mission to put a man on the moon, the European research and innovation missions aim to deliver solutions to some of the greatest challenges facing our world. They are an integral part of…

   Future/ Risk/ Tick √: Future Climate Projections Show us a Possible Future Organizer: Lloyd’s Register Foundation, National University of Singapore An interactive active session, starting with a weather bulletin for the 2050s, and seeking advice from experts and the audience on risk resilient practices using future climate projections. Panelists include Met Office Climate Science,…

   Global Risk Narratives and Communications: Strategy, Tools, and Cultural Considerations Organizer: Lloyd’s Register Foundation, National University of Singapore This session launches two white papers from the Lloyd’s Register Foundation Institute for the Public Understanding of Risk: (1) Global Risk Perception Gap: Comparing Societal Narratives and Individual Perceptions of Risk; and (2) Culture and Risk:…

   Landslides: the Next Frontier of Hazard Early Warning Organizer: Met Office 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…

   Carousel talks: Latest developments in the science and technology for early warning early action – Researchers Edition Organizer: Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre In this session we will have a carousel of humanitarian scientists from all over the world presenting the latest advancements in anticipatory action, early warning and early action systems. Speakers:Tim…

   Pathways to Disaster Resilient Infrastructure Organizer: RMSI By 2050, 7 out of 10 people across the globe will be living in urban areas. Rising urbanization forces will drive current and future investment towards infrastructure. History tells us that in most cases, settlements precede infrastructure development. This leads to tremendous challenges especially when coupled with…

   Understanding risk through games Organizer: Earth Observatory of Singapore Join and play with the Earth Observatory of Singapore (EOS) in this interactive session where EOS brings you its Dynamic Earth Games series to communicate key ideas about disaster preparedness, acting in uncertainty and enacting evacuation plans. Speakers:Lauriane Chardot , Earth Science SpecialistJianhong Kuang ,…

   Monitoring Compound Risks in the Covid-19 Era Organizer: World Bank Group (WBG); United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA); United Nations Peacebuilding Support Office (PBSO); Centre for Disaster Protection (CDP) Complex crises threaten development gains. The impact of a single shock—an earthquake, a severe weather event, or a disease outbreak—can amplify…

   SSTL x The World Bank HADR Challenge Pitching Session Organizer: Singapore Space and Technology Limited (SSTL), Southeast Asia Disaster Risk Insurance Facility (SEADRIF) The application of satellite technology and its increasing role in providing quick, accurate and effective response to frequent and complex disaster situations is evident. Across the world, countries have recognised the…

   Extreme Wildfire Development: Why, Where and When? Organizer: FM Global In recent years, extreme wildfires have claimed lives in Asia, Europe and North America. These fires can move much faster than current models predict and overwhelm communities and emergency response measures. They are not unique to any one geography and pose the potential of…

   The Power of Grassroots Voices to Shape Effective Climate Policy Organizer: Huairou Commission + SlumDwellers International / IIED *this session is part of the Development & Climate Days Grassroots organizations represent poor communities living and working in rural, urban peri-urban and indigenous settlements. Their lives are characterized by fluctuating, unstable incomes, food insecurity, inadequate…

   Putting resilience in place: Learn to apply cloud AI disruptive geospatial technologies people will use for decision making Organizer: Mapbox, Microsoft AI for Good, Planet, World Bank A new generation of converging geospatial, cloud, AI, and big data technologies now provide fresh opportunities to improve public sector decision making towards resilience a range of…

   So what if you have data? Conversations with humanitarian decision-makers on user-centric design and data-driven approaches to flood risk reduction The ability to build climate hazard monitoring products has increased thanks to an increase in the availability of satellite data, the internet of things, other big data and the technology to analyze it. However,…

   ShakeMap‐related research, development, operations, and applications Organizer: U.S. Geological Survey ShakeMap is an open-source software program employed to automatically produce a suite of maps and products that portray the geographical extent and severity of potentially damaging shaking following an earthquake. ShakeMap’s primary purpose is to provide post-earthquake situational awareness for emergency management and response…

   Implementing real-time disaster risk models: Collaborations across government, non-profits, academia and private sector in Mozambique and the Bahamas Organizer: Direct Relief, Facebook Data for Good, Pacific Disaster Center, Harvard School of Public Health During the response to Cyclones Idai and Kenneth in Mozambique, and Hurricane Dorian in The Bahamas, new collaborations emerged to support…

     Access the past and foretell the future: Peering into the crystal ball of early action Organizer: NASA and IFRC From earth observations and weather forecasts to machine learning and predictive modeling, the science and technology of today enables people and organizations to collect decades of data and improve our understanding of future risks….

   How disaster risk data is driving public investment in Haiti Organizer: CKIC + IDRC +GIZ Haiti is one of the most exposed country to natural disaster. Geo-spatial data and risk information have been used to improving the density of shelter and their geographic distribution. In this session we will present how the problem has…

   From Principles to Action: Enabling Locally Led Adaptation Organizer: WRI / Global Commission on Adaptation *this session is part of the Development & Climate Days This session is part of the Development & Climate Days.While it is widely accepted that climate change impacts are felt at the local level, adaptation finance rarely reaches the…

   From black swans to boiling frogs: How to understand risk, visualize risk scenarios, and build agency for early action Organizer: NASA and Earth Observatory of Singapore A myriad of risks exist, but it is our understanding and action in regard to these events that often lead to greater loss of lives and to livelihoods….

   Crossroads: Managing intersecting risks of conflict, violence, disasters and climate change Organizer: GIZ, UNDP, ODI, IFRC, ICRC, EU In many countries of AFR, MENA and EAP, communities are affected by both natural hazards, the impacts of climate change and protracted crisis associated with fragility, conflict and violence (FCV). Furthermore, risks of violence and natural…

   Evaluating COVID-19 transmission in cities: The COVID-19 City Disaster Vulnerability Index Organizer: World Bank Most governments around the world continue to grapple with containing the spread of the coronavirus pandemic and determining appropriate measures to keep economies running with minimum costs to health systems and livelihoods. As with disaster risk, one thing we are…

   Multiform flood risk in a complex future flooded world: Earth observation and complex systems for compound risk assessment Organizer: The World Bank Group Risk, and particularly flood risk, can be seen as the resultant of different forces acting on a complex system. Well-accepted and diffused frameworks describe the forces and elements of the system…

   Map your city’s future: A spatial data for resilience workshop Organizer: World Bank City Resilience Program (CRP); GFDRR The cities of today face the challenge of protecting their populations from extreme weather and climate change effects. Many cities of the future will only be larger, denser, and more exposed to natural hazards. What can…

   Catching fire: Evolving wildfire response for catastrophic events Organizer: World Bank This moderated panel discussion will bring together global wildfire and disaster management leaders to explore technological innovations, share practical insights and explore meaningful solutions to the growing challenge of catastrophic wildfires. As the climate changes, the world has marked a significant increase in…

   Taking the risk out of using risk profiles: The Risk Viewer tool for Latin America and Caribbean Organizer: World Bank A large number of disaster risk profiles exist that can be used for a variety of purposes: to evaluate the impact of disasters, inform risk reduction measures, assess fiscal impact of disasters and catalyze…

   Understanding and assessing climate change risk to cultural heritage: The Climate Vulnerability Index applied to the Caribbean forts Organizer: CVI, James Cook University, ICOMOS, INES Ingenieros, WeArchitects, Moun Studi Introduction to the Climate Vulnerability Index (CVI) methodology and how its application can help identify and determine the most appropriate mitigation measures to be integrated…

   On Bullshit, Candor and Climate Risk: Reconciling Intent, Words and Actions Organizer: Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre *this session is part of the Development & Climate Days Why a humanitarian event on “bullshit”? The answer is simple: it is our job to care. And as climate risk management practitioners it’s hard to care…

   The power of partnership: Sparking public-private engagement in hydromet services Organizer: World Bank/GFDRR The need for hydromet and early warning services is at historical high due to growing population density, urbanization and more frequent events triggered by the climate changes. At the same time, scientific and technological capacity are progressing very rapidly, offering potentially…

   A call to action for resilience: Moving from research to practice Organizer: NASA and ImageCat, Inc. The applications of earth observations (EO) in the context of risk assessment are compelling, yet relatively little has been done to extend the use of EO data to the management of risk and enhancing resilience. The advent of…

   Surviving natural hazards through gameplay Organizer: art-science-media.com, SERNAGEOMIN, Universitat de Barcelona Using the Earth Girl Volcano free casual strategy game as a case study, this session examines a people-centric approach to providing populations at risk with a science-based but engaging set of effective survival tools. Topics include game design, scientific foundations, and field work….

Early warning for early action: Toward more behaviorally-informed early warning systems Organizer: Food for the Hungry “EWSs are only as good as the actions they catalyse; action is an essential part of any warning system. If a warning is sounded, and no one takes the action that the warning was intended to trigger, then the…

   Recalibrating approaches towards urban resilience investments: System thinking and prioritization methods for decision making Organizer: The World Bank The objective of this session is to introduce and debate a set of existing and emerging methodologies to prioritize resilient infrastructure investments (e.g., betweenness centrality/connectivity analysis, accessibility indexes, criticality analysis, community-based participation, etc.) that can be…

   The development impact of open risk analytics Organizer: Risk Modelling Group of the Insurance Development ForumInsuResilience Secretariat There are many human factors in risk decision-making, but we know that to manage and finance risk it helps to quantify it. However countries and cities interested in building their risk understanding do not always have access…

   RiskChanges: An open source tool for multi-hazard risk assessment and decision making Organizer: Geoinformatics Center, Asian Institute of Technology – ITC, University of Twente This session will provide an advanced approach for multi-hazard risk assessment providing how risk changes over time, and how the information on changing risks can be used for disaster risk…

   Launch of the Global Model for Earthquake Social Vulnerability and Resilience Organizer: Global Earthquake Model (GEM) Background Social Vulnerability (SVR) modelling is an important aspect of not just understanding risk but also in reducing disaster risk at any given scale. SVR modelling can give disaster management professionals, especially at the country level, the ability…

   Building Urban Resilience in Southern Africa: Dialogue of Mayors and City Leaders Organizer: World Bank, SADC, DIMSUR The session will be an opportunity for city leaders, government representatives and DRR practitioners from across Southern Africa to come together and:- Present the Regional Assessment of urban vulnerability and resilience in Southern Africa. – Share experiences…

   How to construct an inclusive city weather and early warning system Organizer: Resurgence How would you go about creating a forecasting and early warning system in which the principles of inclusivity and co-design are applied to the absolute maximum? Resurgence has been applying a range of approaches and tools under an umbrella service, a…

   We need champions to understand disaster risk Organizer: GEO-Geohazard Supersites and Natural Laboratories initiative GEO-GSNL; Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia – INGV, Centro Internazionale in Monitoraggio Ambientale – CIMA, Goma Volcano Observatory, Iceland Civil Protection, United Nations University – Institute for Environment and Human Security – UNU-EHS / Eurac Research In this event…

   What is a flood? Risk perceptions and decisions Organizer: World Bank (Urban Floods Community of Practice), NUS Lloyd’s Register Foundation Institute for the Public Understanding of Risk, NUS Deltares This session seeks to examine flood risk perception and its implications for decisions on prevention and preparedness. Flood risk perception is the assessment of the…

   Breaking the silos: From single to comprehensive multi-hazard risk frameworks Organizer: Institute for Environmental Studies, VU University Amsterdam; Philippines Red Cross, German Red Cross and 510, an initiative of the Netherlands Red Cross; Deltares; Marsh & McLennan Advantage, Singapore; UN MGCY The conventional multi-hazard framework is still characterized by hazard-silo thinking. This causes disaster…

   Social Protection for addressing Climate Risks: What are the Linkages? Organizer: Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre Social protection (SP) has been proposed as a policy instrument of direct relevance to deal with emerging climate-related risks and vulnerabilities. This session will explore what is the current state of evidence in using SP for managing…

   Are present-day infrastructure disaster risk models still applicable in a post Covid-19 world? Organizer: Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Lloyds Register Foundation, Resilience Shift, University of Oxford Critical infrastructure systems, such as energy, transportation, water, waste, and digital communications, are the backbone of modern economies and societies. Failures of these systems can result in large-scale economic…

   Designing Schools of the Future to Build Education Resilience post COVID-19 Organizer: The World Bank’s Global Program for Safer Schools, The World Bank Education Global Practice The COVID-19 pandemic has demonstrated at a global scale the devastating impacts that school closures can have on learning outcomes and the development of children, particularly the poorest…

   How big is your appetite (for making a difficult decision)? Organizer: Satarla Aligning organisations on “how much risk is too much risk” is key to rapid and robust decision making, especially in times of stress. This is often addressed through regulation as “risk appetite and tolerance”…. But what does this actually mean? More than…

   Land and geospatial information systems: A cornerstone to improve resilience Organizer: The World Bank When disasters displace people and they are forced to leave their homes behind, land records can offer critical protection of their property rights. This is crucial, since land and homes are usually the main assets that people have and being…

   Multi-Hazard Early Warning Systems: Enabling early and effective action to Tropical Cyclones Organizer: World Meteorological Organization (WMO) 2020 marks the 40th Anniversary of WMO’s Tropical Cyclone Programme, which has coordinated national and regional multi-hazard early warning system efforts to reduce the loss of life and damage caused by tropical cyclones. The hazards associated with…

   What do we learn when we map a city? Voices and impacts from Open Cities Africa Organizer: World Bank / GFDRR; Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) Since 2017, the Open Cities Africa program has trained more than 500 neighborhood residents, university students, and civil servants how to use phones, cameras, drones and other tech to…

Reshaping a resilient future in response to COVID-19 Organizer: Global Resilience Partnership (GRP), Stockholm Resilience Centre (SRC), World Resources Institute (WRI), International Centre for Climate Change and Development (ICCCAD), Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), Complex Systems in Transition (CST) *this session is part of the Development & Climate Days The COVID-19 crisis has…

   Risk thinking versus resilience thinking Organizer: Royal HaskoningDHV Our session is focused on risk thinking versus resilience thinking and the use of objective data versus subjective data in urban adaptation and resilience design. During the session we will showcase several modelling tools, two practical cases and explain how objective data and subjective data play…

   Risk information from the decision maker’s perspective: What they wish you knew and what they need you to tell them Organizer: REAP Globally, regionally, and in many contexts, nationally we have unprecedented access to early warning information and risk analysis. At the same time, many organizations, governments and communities are gradually moving from a…

   Precipitation in Africa: the future of observation, nowcasting and forecasting On the world’s fastest urbanizing continent, Africa, urban floods are a big and growing problem. Early warning is the first important step in flood risk management. This requires continuous and reliable precipitation measurements and forecasts, which are not always available in African cities. Four…

   Harnessing the evolution of earth observations and risk Organizer: Earth Observations (GEO) Group on Earth Observations (GEO) is an international partnership of governments and organizations working towards a future where decisions and actions for the benefit of humankind are informed by coordinated, comprehensive and sustained Earth observations (EO). As a Participating Organization of GEO,…

Geohazard risk monitoring and mitigation approaches for increasing the Himalayan road network resiliency against climate change In order to achieve a resilient management of transportation networks, the impacts related to the occurrence of natural hazards as well as those derived from climate change have to be taken into consideration. For doing so, vulnerable elements of…

   Acting early before disasters: What can go wrong? Organizer: Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre The evidence is irrefutable: Humor can help improve communication, build relationships, enhance problem solving, increase productivity, and strengthen leadership. Because our work requires creative learning and dialogue, the Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre has been working with partners…

   Understanding risk through games: An up close and intimate session Organizer: Earth Observatory of Singapore Join the Earth Observatory of Singapore (EOS) in this interactive session and play the actual card / board games virtually. You will get into discussion with your teammates and make decisions that will direct the fate of your own…

   Tsunami of New Dreams: Filming survivals Organizer: art-science-media.com, ICAIOS International Centre for Aceh and Indian Ocean Studies, Prince Sultan University The producers and film director discuss the process of crafting a story of disaster recovery, future preparedness, and a unique example of stakeholder collaboration. This new documentary feature film focuses on the 2004 Indian…

   Who’s missing information? Towards inclusive risk communication Organizer: The World Bank South Asia Climate and Disaster Risk Management Unit, Social Development Unit, & GFDRR Labs team; Ministry of Public Administration and Disaster Management, Sri Lanka; Google; California Governor’s Office of Emergency Services; and City of New Orleans What makes some information more helpful than…

   Risk-informed development planning in Bangladesh Organizer:  National Resilience Programme (Programming Division Part), Bangladesh Planning Commission Although Bangladesh has made significant progress in disaster risk management, the country is still at risk of growing loss and damage due to disaster and climate stresses. Limitations are found in incorporating disaster and climate change risks in all…

   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)…

   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…