CASCADES@IRDR contributed to UNISDR's new "Words into Action guidelines" on National Disaster Risk Assessment

The document consists of three parts: a policy guidance on methodologies, a technical section on special focus topics, and a review of specific hazard risk assessments. 

Gianluca Pescaroli and Prof. David Alexander, coordinators of the Research Group on Cascading Disasters based at our institute (CASCADES@IRDR),  contributed to the second part of this document, which is entitled "Cross-Sectoral and Multi-Risk Approach to Cascading Disasters". 

The document is available at this link: http://www.preventionweb.net/publications/view/52828

For more information on the activities of the research group please refer to https://www.ucl.ac.uk/rdr/cascading.