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Making Cities Resilient – My City is Getting Ready!
The basic components of a risk assessment include: • Historic loss data: Prepare and maintain an updated database of disaster losses from past events and current potential hazards in the city. • Hazard assessment: Establish and map the nature, locale, intensity and probability of hazards (including natural events, technological and other man-made hazards). • Vulnerability assessment: Determine the degree of vulnerability and exposure to the hazard of the population, development sectors, infrastructure and ongoing or planned city projects. Map and work with populations in highrisk areas. • Capacity assessment: Identify the capacities and resources available institutionally and at neighborhood or district level. • Identify corrective actions and plans to reduce the risks.
• Vulnerability assessment: Determine the degree of vulnerability and exposure to the hazard of the population, development sectors, infrastructure and ongoing or planned city projects. Map and work with populations in high-risk areas. • Capacity assessment: Identify the capacities and resources available institutionally and at neighborhood or district level. • Identify corrective actions and plans to reduce the risks.
Disseminate risk information and apply to development decisions • Prioritize actions based on an analysis of the urban plan, land-use zoning, investment decisions and worst-case scenarios for emergency preparedness plans and exercises. • Make the results available through websites and other means of information. • Update the risk assessment, preferably annually. • Establish a city-wide geographic information and monitoringsystem • Consider creating a geographic information and monitoring system that includes input data from and is accessible to all actors, including civil society, the production sector (for example, agriculture, mining, commerce and tourism) and the scientific and technical community. • Maintain outputs in the city’s Geographic Information System (GIS).