Open Data for Resilience Initiative : Field Guide
Credible information about risk is an essential element of Disaster Risk Management (DRM). Thousands of times each year, disasters reveal decisions about how to apply this information to the management of risk. When a school collapses during a mode...
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| Format: | Working Paper |
| Language: | English en_US |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2014
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2014/01/19296771/open-data-resilience-initiative-field-guide http://hdl.handle.net/10986/17840 |
| Summary: | Credible information about risk is an
essential element of Disaster Risk Management (DRM).
Thousands of times each year, disasters reveal decisions
about how to apply this information to the management of
risk. When a school collapses during a moderate earthquake,
citizens may point to the failure of the construction firm
to adhere to building standards, or to the failure of a
government to enforce building codes, or to the education
ministry that should have retrofitted the structure to
better resist known seismic risks. In each case, critical
information was missing, information that might have driven
a different choice about architectural designs, building
materials, the site for the building (siting), or actions to
remediate a known vulnerability. Across the disaster risk
management cycle, institutions are now engaged in a process
to build this stock of information. The aim is to improve
the chain of decision making across an entire system, from
the donors who fund retrofitting of schools to the parents
who need to know how safe their local schools are. |
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