ADAPTATION LITERACY
E-LEARNING
Lesson 2Six steps of disaster risk assessment
Lesson 2 teaches you how to assess the compound and cascading disaster risks in your community. By carrying out a risk assessment, you can determine the nature and extent of disaster risk due to compound or cascading phenomena. Similar to a single disaster risk assessment, the lesson takes you through the 6-step process for disaster risk assessment:
- Hazard analysis
- Exposure assessment
- Vulnerability assessment
- Risk mapping
- Risk scenario development
- Resources and capacity mapping
You can learn how to consider compound and cascading hazards on each of these six steps of participatory disaster risk assessment.
Useful links
- Words into Action guidelines: National disaster risk assessment
- Participatory Assessment of Climate and Disaster Risk
- “Multi-layered hazard map” in Japan
- Climate Risk Assessment for Ecosystem-based Adaptation: A guidebook for planners and practitioners(Module 2: Developing impact chains)
- Scenario-based risk analytics for managing cascading disasters :A pathway to manage risks and protect people in South Asia
- Workshop Report: Multi-Hazard Risk Scenarios for Tomorrow’s Cities
- Scenario Best Practices: Developing Scenarios for Disaster Risk Reduction
