GAR2022: Contributing Papers

The central question for this Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction 2022 (GAR2022) is how governance systems can evolve to better address the systemic risks of the future. Developed through an extensive set of partnerships, the GAR is both an ongoing process of generating evidence, knowledge and policy engagement, as well as an opportunity to showcase trends and report on progress. This page contains the Contributing Papers to the GAR2022.

Documents and publications

Working paper

17 May 2022

Data tools for assessing disaster risk reduction: An analysis of literature using open-access disaster risk reduction spatial datasets to implement the Sendai Framework

This study explores the use of geospatial information, specifically open-access spatial data, and the implementation of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030, a framework designed to manage disaster risk

Documents and publications

Working paper

17 May 2022

Disaster risk reduction in the ASEAN region: Understanding and assessing systematic risks of floods and landslides in a river basin context

This contributing paper presents the results of a project implemented to assess the systemic risks of floods and landslides in selected river basins by integrating climate change projections into risk assessments.

Documents and publications

Working paper

17 May 2022

Earth Observations into action: Systemic integration of Earth Observation applications into national risk reduction decision structures

The purpose of this contributing paper is to demonstrate scalable and replicable methods to advance and integrate the use of Earth observations to support risk-informed decision making, based on documented national and subnational needs and requirements.

Documents and publications

Working paper

17 May 2022

Shedding light on avoided disasters: Measuring invisible benefits of disaster risk reduction using counterfactual probabilistic analysis

This study discusses four types of situations where successful DRM interventions are made invisible and propose an analysis to calculate the ‘probabilistic lives saved’ from disaster risk management interventions, that would otherwise remain unnoticed.

Documents and publications

Working paper

17 May 2022

Global climate indicators, risks and the Sustainable Development Goals, visually mapped

This contributing paper presents a mapping tool that connects the seven World Meteorological Organization (WMO) state of the climate indicators to climate change impacts and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

Documents and publications

Working paper

17 May 2022

Supply chain resilience: The indirect economic implication of Sunda Strait (Krakatoa) tsunami and COVID-19 outbreak to the tourism hospitality supply chain in Pandeglang, Indonesia

This contributing paper delves into the impact of a tsunami and the COVID-19 pandemic on the coastal tourism sector in Pandeglang Regency (Banten Province) in Indonesia.

Documents and publications

Working paper

17 May 2022

Economic Consequences Assessment Model (ECAM): A tool & methodology for measuring indirect economic effects

The contributing paper explains how indirect economic impacts are computed, the necessary input data, and includes example applications for a hypothetical multi-dam breach, a hypothetical earthquake, and a hypothetical hurricane in the Caribbean.

Documents and publications

Working paper

17 May 2022

Establishing the nexus between cultural heritage and risk-informed sustainable development: Experiences of understanding and addressing systemic disaster risk from the World Heritage City of Ahmedabad

This contributing paper investigates the process of how the pandemic risk had been building in the World Heritage (old) city of Ahmedabad by considering the old city as a ‘system’ and its functional and operational dimensions as ‘sibling systems’.

Documents and publications

Working paper

12 May 2022

A global measure of the impact of COVID-19 in 2020, and a comparison to all other disasters (2000-2019)

This study uses a Lifeyears Index of disaster damage to assess the costs of the COVID-19 pandemic across countries against the costs of all other disasters that have occurred in all countries in the past 20 years.

Documents and publications

Working paper

12 May 2022

Enriching impact data by mining digital media

Creating, sustaining, and increasing adoption of impact databases with sufficient quality faces significant challenges. Digital media mining may be useful to complement existing databases.