Our DRAs provide a critical foundation for managing disaster risk across a range of sectors. Following the training you’ll be able to rapidly identify and quantify the highest risks from natural hazards, providing an evidence base to support critical decisions in areas such as emergency response strategies or investments in infrastructure projects.

For example, in land-use and urban planning sectors, robust analysis of flood risk drives investment in flood protection can influence insurance pricing. Technologies such as digital hazard mapping, vulnerability assessment and exposure control can be used to carry out country-wide risk assessments, or estimate potential damages and casualties from natural catastrophes as part of civil contingency planning.

At the community level, an understanding of hazard events – whether through education, from living memory or oral and written histories – can inform and influence decisions on preparedness, including life-saving evacuation procedures and behaviours, with pre-determined safe havens and known location of important facilities.