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🌐 Why is RSTAG so important for disaster risk reduction?
Monica Sanders—Founder of The Undivide Project and Adjunct Professor at Georgetown—explains how science, digital justice, and social equity must come together to build more inclusive and effective disaster risk models. ⚖️🌍
RSTAG, a UNDRR-led advisory group, brings together global experts to guide disaster risk reduction with scientific insight and social awareness. Monica highlights how current DRR models often overlook the lived experiences of minoritized communities, and why we must recognize that vulnerability is dynamic—not fixed. 🧠📊
This is a call to rethink how we define risk, who we include, and how we respond.
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About UNDRR:
The United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) has a big ambition: to help decision-makers across the globe better understand and act on risk. At UNDRR, we believe there is no such thing as a natural disaster. A natural hazard, such as a hurricane, earthquake, tsunami, or flood, only becomes a disaster when it impacts a community that is not adequately protected and whose population is vulnerable as a result of poverty, exclusion, or social disadvantage. We envision a world where disasters no longer threaten the well-being of people and the future of the planet. Sustainable development and the 2030 Agenda cannot be achieved without working towards the goal of building resilience.
Learn more about UNDRR: undrr.org
Learn more about disaster risk reduction: preventionweb.net
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🌐 Why is RSTAG so important for disaster risk reduction?
Monica Sanders—Founder of The Undivide Project and Adjunct Professor at Georgetown—explains how science, digital justice, and social equity must come together to build more inclusive and effective disaster risk models. ⚖️🌍
RSTAG, a UNDRR-led advisory group, brings together global experts to guide disaster risk reduction with scientific insight and social awareness. Monica highlights how current DRR models often overlook the lived experiences of minoritized communities, and why we must recognize that vulnerability is dynamic—not fixed. 🧠📊
This is a call to rethink how we define risk, who we include, and how we respond.
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Subscribe to UNDRR on YouTube: youtube.com/channel/UCUw0G3AdE_0EDhcDPlJtJyA?sub_confirmation=1
Captions: Where possible we provide additional captions to make our videos more accessible to those who use assistive technology, such as screen readers. If you don't require the captions they can be toggled off using the CC button, usually at the bottom of the video display.
About UNDRR:
The United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) has a big ambition: to help decision-makers across the globe better understand and act on risk. At UNDRR, we believe there is no such thing as a natural disaster. A natural hazard, such as a hurricane, earthquake, tsunami, or flood, only becomes a disaster when it impacts a community that is not adequately protected and whose population is vulnerable as a result of poverty, exclusion, or social disadvantage. We envision a world where disasters no longer threaten the well-being of people and the future of the planet. Sustainable development and the 2030 Agenda cannot be achieved without working towards the goal of building resilience.
Learn more about UNDRR: undrr.org
Learn more about disaster risk reduction: preventionweb.net
Sign up for updates: undrr.org/subscribe-undrr-updates
Follow:
linkedin.com/company/undrr
twitter.com/UNDRR
facebook.com/unisdr
