Author: United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR)
Year of publication: 2017
Available languages: English
Type of assessment: Climate change adaptation assessment
Details: Maps global disaster rIsk
Details: General method can also be reproduced, which would then go beyond the app data
Estimated costs for conducting: Open source
Estimated duration of assessment: No information
To be carried out by whom: Others
Details: Potentially data on your country of interest was already generated by this method. Then it is open source. If not, a consultant would be needed to carry out the assessment
Institutional scale of use: Continental
Assesment to be used by which target audience: Local decision makers
Details: The risk metrics presented in the GAR Atlas are designed to identify broad patterns of risk and their development implications rather than to inform development decisions at the local level
Output: Risk map
Region of origin: Europe
Developed by which sector: Development cooperation
Applied in practice: Yes
Geographic coverage in analysis: Worldwide
Potential geographic coverage: Worldwide (data depends on the hazard)
Details: Focussed on building stock; agriculture is not yet included, but will be included in the next phase of Global Risk Model (GRM)
Method used: Index development
Description of methodology: Uses a combination of probabilistic hazard models, global exposure models
Risk framework used: Broad risk mapping according to different definition
Details: Disaster risk: The potential loss of life, injury, destroyed or damaged assets which could occur to a system, society or a community in a specific period of time, determined probabilistically as a function of hazard, exposure, vulnerability and capacity
Risk components incorporated: All
Hazards and impacts considered in the assessment: Cyclone (including tropical storm, hurricane and typhoon), Earthquake, Flood, Storm surge, Tsunami
Details: Information on strucutral characteristics, use and the value of the building stock exposed to hazardous events; they used the open source multi-hazard risk platform CAPRA to calculate risk
Participatory elements: No
Consideration of interconnectedness and -dependencies of risks: No
Adressing uncertainty: Yes
Details: Does not thematize uncertainty, but acknowledges that it exists
Scope of assessment: Identification of risks, assessment of impacts
Economic/Non-Economic losses incorporated: Both
Details: Deals with disaster risk implications for social and economic development
Applicability for entire risk spectrum (from extreme weather events to slow onset processes): Yes
Recommendations for Adaptation measures included in Climate Risk Assessment: No
Usefulness for political purposes: It is useful for decision making on a national or international scale, not on a small scale
Applied by whom: UNISDR
Open access: Yes