Visions of Risk : A Review of International Indicators of Risk and its Management

A report for the ISDR Inter-Agency Task Force on Disaster Reduction, Working Group 3: Risk, Vulnerability & Disaster Impact Assessment. Coordinated by the UN Dev't. Programme (UNDP), this report reviews 3 important initiatives which represent the first comprehensive global & regional assessments of disaster risk: the Disaster Risk Indexing project (DRI) of the UNDP in partnership with the UN Environment Programme-Global Resource Information Database (UNEP-GRID); the Hotspots indexing project implemented by Columbia Univ., the ProVention Consortium (under the umbrella of the World Bank); & the Americas programme of IDEA in partnership with the Inter-American Development Bank (IADB). Charts & tables.Pelling, Mark is the author of 'Visions of Risk : A Review of International Indicators of Risk and its Management', published 2005 under ISBN 9780756749941 and ISBN 0756749948.