GCRI · Disaster Resilience and Recovery
STEM foundation of Disaster Resilience and Recovery
The science, technology, engineering and mathematics Disaster Resilience and Recovery rests on. Each method has a canonical page in the STEM Commons, hosted by the Global Centre for Risk and Innovation (GCRI), and a page here on how it is applied in this field.
STEM foundation of Disaster Resilience and Recovery in four parts.
The methods behind the field.
- 01Decision analysis under uncertaintyCost-benefit of risk reduction · Acting on forecasts · Recovery prioritisationSteward · Systemic Risk ManagementApplied here
- 02Social and behavioural scienceWarning response surveys · Participatory risk assessment · Social vulnerability analysisSteward · Society and Human DevelopmentApplied here
- 03Forecasting and time-series analysisTrigger verification · Flood forecast lead time · Seasonal outlooks for drought preparednessSteward · Climate and HazardsApplied here
- 04Optimisation and operations researchPrepositioning relief supplies · Evacuation and shelter planning · Restoration sequencingSteward · Systems Science and ModellingApplied here
- 05Geospatial information systemsExposure mapping · Rapid damage assessment · Common operational dataSteward · Space and Earth ObservationApplied here
- 06Hydrology and water scienceFlood risk mapping for planning · Thresholds for anticipatory actionSteward · Water NexusApplied here
- 07Earth and geophysical scienceEarthquake scenarios for exercises · Landslide hazard in recovery planningSteward · Climate and HazardsApplied here
- 08Structural and earthquake engineeringPost-disaster safety evaluation · Retrofit prioritisation · Reconstruction standardsSteward · Cities and Built EnvironmentApplied here
Why disaster risk needs this combination of methods.
Disaster resilience combines decision analysis for choices under uncertainty, social science for vulnerability and behaviour, forecasting and hydrology and geoscience for hazards, geospatial methods for exposure, optimisation for logistics and structural engineering for the built environment.
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Pages in STEM foundation of Disaster Resilience and Recovery.
Decision analysis for disaster risk
MethodSocial science of disasters
MethodForecasting for early action
MethodOperations research for disaster logistics
MethodGeospatial methods for disasters
MethodHydrology for disaster resilience
MethodGeoscience for disaster resilience
MethodStructural engineering for recovery
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