Webinar: Pandemics, extreme weather, major accidents: How does good crisis communication work?
Climate-related extreme events, industrial accidents, terrorist attacks and accidents at major events repeatedly highlight the complex interdependencies between people, technology and infrastructure. Research is therefore focussing on the impact and potential of...
Riskculture – Climate crisis meets Civil Protection
How do we as societies or groups perceive risks? How can the concept of society be understood and defined? And how should we think about and deal with risks in the future? Yesterday, Prof. Dr. Martin Voss from the Disaster Research Centre Berlin tried to find answers...
Scaling Up Disaster Risk Reduction in Humanitarian Action
Conducting risk analysis during strategic planning excercises a) expands humanitarian focus from acute and urgent needs to chronic vulnerabilities and exposure to future risks, stress, and shocks, and b) helps integrate reduction of extreme vulnerability into planning...
The German Strategy on Climate Foreign Policy
In the middle of the week, Germany became the first country in the world with a “Climate Foreign Policy Strategy”, which emphasizes the importance of the Paris Agreement and sees climate protection as an important part of foreign policy. The document...