Disaster Risk Reduction: Sendai Framework Overview

Geographies of Risk: Resilience

• Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction (2015-2030): Aims to manage disaster risk at all levels and across all sectors.
• Scope: Covers small-scale and large-scale disasters, whether natural or manmade, sudden or slow-onset hazards, and related environmental, technological and biological hazards
• Goal (Sendai): Prevent new and reduce existing disaster risk. Implement integrated and inclusive measures to strengthen resilience.
• Expected Outcome (Sendai): Reduction of disaster risk in lives, livelihoods, health, economic, physical, social, cultural, and environmental assets.
• Targets (Sendai):
  • Substantially reduce global disaster mortality.
  • Reduce affected people globally.
  • Reduce disaster economic losses in relation to GDP.
  • Substantially increase countries with national and local disaster risk reduction strategies.
  • Substantially increase the availability of and access to multi-hazard early warning systems and disaster risk information.
  • Substantially reduce damage to critical infrastructure and disruption to essential services, mainly through developing their resilience.
  • Enhance international cooperation, primarily through adequate and sustainable support for developing nations.

Resilience Politics

• Robustness: Engineering systems to increase immunity to external disturbances provides protection, but some hazards are too severe even for the most robust design
  • Hazards can still overwhelm the best protection methods
• Recovery: Helping vulnerable populations recover from a disaster is important, but it is also necessary to examine the underlying social, economic, cultural, and political systems that initially produced precarity.
• Reform: Strengthening citizen's rights and changing the political structures can be beneficial, but meaningful change needs to occur, not just tokenistic efforts. Reforms need to reduce risk, rather than marginally addressing it.
• Redesign: Transforming societies to address the root causes of precarity may be the only solution for durable changes in resilience; however, large-scale societal change can be difficult in times of upheaval and unrest.

Explore the key aspects of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction, which aims to manage risks associated with both natural and manmade disasters. The quiz addresses the scope, goals, and expected outcomes of the framework, as well as essential targets for reducing disaster impact. Enhance your understanding of resilience strategies in disaster management.