Improving Future Disaster Anticipation and Resilience
Improving Future Disaster Anticipation and Resilience is a new project investigating how to improve anticipation of and resilience to disasters.
The project will identify actions that could be taken within the next 10 years to reduce the impacts of disasters arising from hazards up to 2040. It will call on industry and academic expertise from the UK and explore how emerging science and technology might improve our ability to prepare for and respond to these impacts.
This work is part of the Government’s response to Lord Ashdown’s Humanitarian Emergency Response Review commissioned by the Department for International Development. It is focussed on disasters that occur outside of developed countries, particularly in politically or economically fragile states, and will look at hazards including earthquakes, floods and droughts.
The project will be guided by a group of experts from a range of disciplines, and will be informed by the best current research across the physical sciences, health, social sciences and economics. Its findings will help UK and international policy-makers navigate a challenging and uncertain future.
We expect the report to be published by the end of 2012.
