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  • KULTURisk at the Global Platform for disaster Risk Reduction The Global Platform for Disaster Reduction is a biennial forum for information exchange, discussion and partnership building across sectors, to improve implementation of disaster risk reduction. This year it will be held in Geneva, Switzerland on 19-23 May 2013. Pierpaolo Campostrini, managing Director of CORILA, will introduce the methodology developed within the KULTURisk project. Click here for more information.
    Posted 14 May 2013 00:44 by Leonardo Alfonso
  • KULTURisk SUMMER SCHOOL - Flood risk reduction: perception, communication, governance 9-12 September 2013 at UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education, Delft The NetherlandsThis Summer School will introduce various approaches to risk prevention and management and highlight the importance of measures, risk perception and communication to risk governance and the existing international initiatives and policies in disaster risk reduction. These concepts will be analysed in the context of water-related hazards such as floods and landslides occurring in coastal areas, mountainous catchments, transboundary large rivers and urban settings, with the understanding that given the multi-hazard approach required in disaster risk reduction, they may be applicable to other natural hazards. Learning objectives Upon completion of the summer school, the participants will be able to: identify the main components of ...
    Posted 2 May 2013 08:11 by Leonardo Alfonso
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KULTURisk: Knowledge-based approach to develop a cULTUre of Risk prevention

The KULTURisk project aims at developing a culture of risk prevention by means of a comprehensive demonstration of the benefits of prevention measures.

Artistic version by Domenico Di Baldassarre

"Modern society has distinct advantages over those civilizations of the past that suffered or even collapsed for reasons linked to water. We have great knowledge, and the capacity to disperse that knowledge to the remotest places on earth. We are also beneficiaries of scientific leaps that have improved weather forecasting, agricultural practices, natural resources management, disaster prevention, preparedness and management…But only a rationale and informed political, social and cultural response – and public participation in all stages of the disaster management cycle – can reduce disaster vulnerability, and ensure that hazards do not turn into unmanageable disasters"

Kofi Annan
Message on World Water Day 2004