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Risk Governance in Disaster Management: Achieving the Paradigm Shift

Explore the transition from disaster management to integrative risk management, focusing on government to governance approaches in disaster risk reduction (DRR). Learn from Walter J. Ammann, CEO of Global Risk Forum GRF, Davos, about values, vulnerabilities, and damage potential in risk analysis. Discover the importance of a risk-based approach and multi-risk governance in handling floods, windstorms, earthquakes, and other hazards. Unite stakeholders for a comprehensive risk strategy at various scales. Governance is the key to achieving the needed paradigm shift towards proactive risk prevention.

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Risk Governance in Disaster Management: Achieving the Paradigm Shift

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  1. SiDe Event: Wednesday 22 May 2013disaster risk reduction: government to governanceFrom Disaster Management to integrative risk management: The paradigm shift in DRR Walter J. Ammann, CEO, Global Risk Forum GRF Davos, Davos, Switzerland walter.ammann@grforum.org

  2. DRR? Disaster management (how to deal with a risk which has just become reality) Risk reduction (how to prevent or limit potential future disasters) disaSTER RISK REDUCTION DRR

  3. Risks: the Hazardside Processes

  4. Risks – The Values andVulnerabilities Values exposed to hazards Vulnerability Damage potential

  5. Risk – existingvaluesanddamage potential Processes Values exposed to hazards Damage potential RISK Risksandopportunities (values) aretwins nodevelopmentwithoutrisks

  6. What can happen? Risk Analysis What has to be done? Measures to be taken DRR – conceptual Framework Howsafeissafeenough? • Paradigmshift: • Riskbasedapproach (ex-ante): proactiveprevention • Insteadof: • Disaster centeredapproach (ex-post): intervention/ recovery What is acceptable to happen? Hazardanalysis (hazardintensityandexposureanalysis, vulnerability, Scenarios important Whatis an acceptedsafetylevel? (Protection goals, acceptablerisklevels) Risk Assessment

  7. Governance to ensure Multi risk approachensure comparability of risks FLOODS SEVERE WINDSTORMS EARTHQUAKES/ TSUNAMIS DROUGHTS, DESERTIFICATION GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE RESOURCE SCARCITIES LAND DEGRADATION SOCIAL UNRESTs PANDEMICS BIOLOGICAL HAZARDS FINANCIAL CRISES TECHNOLOGICAL HAZARDS BIOLOGICAL THREATS TERRORISM

  8. Governanceto link all the variousstakeholdersandscales Decisionmakers Policy makers Administration Practitioners Private Sector Society Critical Infrastructures’ facilitators (private/public) Media Scale local- community/city - regional – national - international

  9. National risk strategy Risk concept (unifying the risk based approach) Governance is key! Howtoachieve the paradigmshift

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