This course will provide an overview of sustainable disaster risk reduction planning, which focuses on reducing the risk of disasters and their impacts on communities. It will cover topics such as identifying potential risks, developing strategies to reduce those risks, and implementing plans to mitigate the effects of disasters. Additionally, the course
Disaster risk reduction aims to make disasters less likely to happen. The approach, also called DRR or disaster risk management, also aims to make disasters less damaging when they do occur. DRR aims to make communities stronger and better prepared to handle disasters. In technical terms, it aims to make them more resilient or less vulnerable. When DRR is successful, it makes communities less the vulnerable because it mitigates the effects of disasters. This means DRR can make risky events fewer and less severe. Climate change can increase climate hazards. So development efforts often consider DRR and climate change adaptation together.