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United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction

Created in December 1999 to ensure the implementation of the UN International Strategy for Disaster Reduction. Aims to bring governments, partners and communities together to reduce disaster risk and losses to ensure a safer, more sustainable future.

Their YouTube channel Their website a good source of news and stats, eg:

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Making Cities Resilient’ Initiative

Launched in 2010, an initiative of the UNDRR for improving local resilience making the city safer, preventing risks and promoting innovation and investments.

Part one of ten explained on YT

ARCH - Saving cultural heritage

A European-funded research project that ran for 3 years, developing disaster risk management tools for local authorities and practitioners, the urban population, and national and international expert communities. The ARCH team with the cities of Bratislava, Camerino, Hamburg and Valencia will co-create tools that will help cities save cultural heritage from the effects of climate change.” Built on the UN Making Cities Resilient ten essentials list, aimed to be compatible with the existing approaches.

Their Resource Hub is a fantastic research source eg. it links to the Italian web platform on landslides and floods.

SHELTER

A 4-year project running from 2019-2023 involving 23 partners (universities, SMEs, public bodies etc) across 9 countries aiming at bringing together the scientific community and heritage managers with the same goal: the resilience enhancement at every stage of disaster management. To do so, it is developing a data driven and community-based knowledge framework. Includes Universities of Bologna, Torino, and Padova.

STRENCH

A completed 2-year project involving 9 partners from 7 Central European countries, each with their own pilot sites eg. historic parks, ruined hamlets, palaces theatened by flooding and fire, cultural landscapes adversely affected by climatte change.

The WebGIS tool displays hazard maps which were used to make decisions on future planning.

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Other projects

RESILOCRESCultKERES

Data Sources

National Centers for Environmental Information EU Copernicus Programme (esp. reanalysis section) NASA Global Precipitation Measurement

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