Data for Disaster Risk Reduction

This episode of the Data for Disaster Risk Reduction talks about preparing for adversity caused by Climate Change; risk levels can be assessed using vulnerability, exposure, and hazard data. Further, into the episode, the importance of quantitative and qualitative data is also discussed to ensure a holistic risk assessment.

The sixth episode of this podcast series has Dr. Bapon Fakhruddin, Chair for the CODATA Task Group on FAIR-DRR, a trained hydrologist with 17 years of working experience in water engineering, climate, and disaster risk management. His key areas of expertise are hydrological modeling, early warning system, emergency communication, climate-proofing infrastructure, and disaster risk reduction; and Ilan Kelman is a Professor of Disasters and Health at University College London, England, and a Professor II at the University of Agder, Kristiansand, Norway. His overall research interest links disasters and health, integrating climate change into both. Three main areas are (i) disaster diplomacy and health diplomacy, (ii) island sustainability involving safe and healthy communities in isolated locations, and (iii) risk education for health and disasters. 

The fifth episode has Dr. Bapon Fakhruddin, Chair for the CODATA Task Group on FAIR-DRR, a trained hydrologist with 17 years of working experience in water engineering, climate, and disaster risk management. His key areas of expertise are hydrological modeling, early warning system, emergency communication, climate-proofing infrastructure, and disaster risk reduction; Dr. Animesh Kumar works at the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction as the Head of Office in Bonn. The UNDRR Bonn Office serves as the organization’s global facility for climate action and comprehensive risk management, disaster data, and monitoring of the Sendai Framework and SDGs.
In this episode of the "Data for Disaster Risk Reduction Series," the speakers talk about the trends of disaster activities and how the Sendai Framework is being adapted globally to monitor disaster loss and understand the risk assessment aspects involved with the disasters. They also discussed integrating the exposure, risk, and vulnerability data to understand the damage assessment scenarios better.

In this episode of the "Data for Disaster Risk Reduction Series," the speakers talk about various essential data sources during emergency relief, and the challenges geospatial and earth observation communities in multiple countries face when working with crowdsourced data. They further discuss the importance of policy frameworks when dealing with different sources of data, the role of governments in the utilization of data, and how International organizations can promote awareness.

The fourth episode has Dr. Bapon Fakhruddin, Chair for the CODATA Task Group on FAIR-DRR, a trained hydrologist with 17 years of working experience in water engineering, climate, and disaster risk management. His key areas of expertise are hydrological modeling, early warning system, emergency communication, climate-proofing infrastructure, and disaster risk reduction. And Dr. Shirish Ravan, United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs in Vienna, Austria, is the UN Office dedicated to global space governance and promoting peaceful uses of outer space. He implements international programs facilitating space-based technologies in achieving SDGs, especially disaster and climate resilience.

Learn about data-driven response and recovery, data coordination, historical data management, required resources, and infrastructure. Insights into policies to be adopted to use technology for better disaster prediction.

Kanza is a Consultant in Global Public Health for the Global Disaster Risk Reduction and Global Health Security functions at the newly formed UK Health Security Agency. She has extensive experience in epidemiology and statistics, having graduated from the UK Field Epidemiology Training Programme (UK-FETP) in 2020.  

Dr. Bapon is Chair for CODATA Task group on FAIR-DRR, a trained hydrologist with 17 years of working experience in water engineering, climate, and disaster risk management. His key areas of expertise are hydrological modeling, early warning system, emergency communication, climate-proofing infrastructure, and disaster risk reduction. 

This episode talks about the importance of data in hazard modeling and the challenges faced while setting up an early warning system. Dr. Bapon Fakhruddin, Technical Director, Tonkin, and Taylor from New Zealand, co-chair of Integrated Research on Disaster Risk (IRDR), and Jill Bolland, Principal Natural Hazard and Climate Risk Consultant, Tonkin, and Taylor, share their views on the issues related to data quality and inequality in the data distribution, and how access to open data still is a long way to go while dealing with disaster risk assessment on a global scale.

In 2021, Emergency Event Database, the global database on disasters, recorded 432 events related to natural hazards worldwide. The first episode of the podcast series on Data for Disaster Risk Reduction explores data-driven response and recovery, data coordination, management, and required resources and infrastructure. Insights into policies to be adopted to use technology for better disaster prediction. 

The episode has Yan Wang, Data Stewardship Coordinator at Delft University of Technology, Netherlands and Bapon Fakhruddin, Technical Director, Tonkin and Taylor, New Zealand.