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David Lallemant
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🌟 Think of it as the Oscars of disaster risk reduction – but with fewer celebrities and more life-saving work! 🌟 Successes are worth celebrating! The Averted Disaster Award ceremony will be live-streamed tomorrow morning from Himeji, Japan during the Understanding Risk Global Forum 2024. Join Francis Ghesquiere, Olivia Jensen and me to learn about the award, about the amazing finalists, new innovations we introduced this year (hint: counterfactual analysis to highlight risk reduction benefits of each project, led by Susanna Jenkins), and, of course, find out who the winner is!Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery (GFDRR), Understanding Risk
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David Lallemant
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🌟 Excited to be attending the Understanding Risk Global Forum (UR24) this week in beautiful Himeji, Japan! 🌟I'm thrilled to contribute to several sessions focused on disaster risk management and climate resilience. This event is an incredible opportunity to reconnect with colleagues and meet new experts in the field. I'm also excited for the opening ceremony featuring architect Shigeru Ban, one of my favorite architects and a brilliant innovator on resilience, sustainability, and disaster risk reduction. It will surely be a great week!Here's a glimpse of what I'll be involved in:🔹 Plenary: The Averted Disaster Award 2024📅 June 19, 2024 | 9:00 a.m. - 9:30 a.m.Join us as we celebrate achievements in disaster risk reduction and announce the winner of the 2024 Averted Disaster Award. Along with Francis Ghesquiere and Olivia Jensen, we will will highlight the importance of recognizing invisible successes in disaster risk management.🔹 Acting Today to Reduce Risk Tomorrow: Innovative Tools to Reveal Risk and Co-create Future Cities📅 June 20, 2024 | 9:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.This Focus Day will delve into planning "Tomorrow's Cities" through risk-informed strategies. The day includes exhibitions, interactive panels on data challenges and inclusive governance, and a role-playing exercise demonstrating the "Tomorrow's Cities Decision Support Environment." Join to learn more about the Tomorrow's Cities programme and framework to build resilience for the urban poor.🔹 Too Many Sessions? Come Unconference! Breaking Down Structure for Climate Action 📅 June 20, 2024 | 9:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. Experience the innovative "un-conference" format designed to foster collaboration across disciplines and sectors. We'll explore creative problem-solving strategies and showcase art from past Field Labs. 🔹 Climate Analytics Acceleration Hub: Igniting Action & Finance with Innovation 📅 June 21, 2024 | 2:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. Join us to tackle challenges in disaster risk management and climate adaptation by bridging gaps in climate analytics. This session will promote shared learning, showcase innovative tools, and enhance networking among professionals. In particular, I'll be sharing work as part of a consortium coordinated by the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC) on the Global Displacement Risk Model 2.0.If you're attending UR24, let's connect.#UR24 #UnderstandingRisk #RiskManagement #DisasterRiskReduction #ClimateChange
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David Lallemant
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I’ve loved everything I’ve ever worked on with Elizabeth McNaughton . 10 years ago we worked on a book 📖 “Leading in Disaster Recovery, a Companion Through the Chaos.” It was such a pleasure to connect again for this podcast on 🎙️“Disrupting Disasters”. Together we talk about navigating the climate crisis, finding resilience and hope amid the onslaught of disheartening news, about decision-making in uncertainty, counterfactual analysis, the Averted Disaster Award, black swans, caterpillars (from The Little Prince), and more. If you are interested in any of these topics, please have a listen🎧 and let us know what you think!I can’t wait to listen to the other podcasts that Elizabeth has planned!#ClimateRisk #Resilience #ClimatePodcast #NoNaturalDisaster
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Climate risk is a certainty, not a probability.Excited to be joining industry leaders convened by Aon's Reinsurance Solutions for a panel on ‘Bridging Science and Catastrophe Risk Management.’ We’ll be discussing important topics at the intersection of climate science and catastrophe modeling.Happening May 7th in Singapore. Details below ⬇️
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How do we promote climate and disaster resilience strategies that are more equitable? Such questions are at the core of our research, and I'm thrilled to share insights from my PhD student Jeanette C., written in collaboration with the Asian Development Bank (ADB).Thank you Alessio Giardino and ADB colleagues for working together on this.#ClimateResilience #InclusiveAdaptation #SocialInequality
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Sharing my TEDx talk: Shaping our future towards climate and disaster resilienceThe term 'disaster' often evokes a sense of inevitability, a legacy of its Latin origins implying a misfortune dictated by the stars. However, this perception is far from the truth. In reality, the risks associated with climate and disasters are far from predetermined.Last year, I had the privilege of sharing my journey and insights at a TEDx event, delving into how we can combat the adverse effects of climate and disaster risk. From early experiences of seasonal flooding at my childhood home in Thailand to contributing to recovery efforts after the 2010 earthquake in Haiti, my path has been shaped by a series of impactful encounters with extreme events. These personal experiences have led me to an insight that is counterintuitive to many: disasters are not inevitable. They are constructed through our interactions with the environment. And if they are constructed, they can be deconstructed.But the first step is to understand risk and its trajectory. Disaster risk is created when three elements converge: hazard (extreme events such as hurricanes and flooding), exposure (people, communities, assets) and vulnerability. All three are necessary to create risk. Through this lens, I discuss the escalating risk faced by many communities, driven not solely by climate change but also by the dynamics of exposure and vulnerability. In the Disaster Analytics for Society Lab, we harness big data and develop sophisticated models to probe these dynamics, understanding how risk evolves over time. Crucially, these analytical tools can inform strategies for resilient communities, resilient cities and resilient businesses.I am not naive about the scale of the climate and disaster challenges we face, but one of my reasons for optimism lies in the solutions already at our disposal, many of which go unnoticed. This is a perennial challenge in the field of risk reduction: while catastrophes capture global attention, averted disasters remain invisible. Through initiatives like the Averted Disaster Award, we aim to spotlight these victories, encouraging their replication, adaptation, and scaling across communities in need.🔗 TEDx: Shaping our future towards climate and disaster resilience: https://lnkd.in/gTawC_r8Acknowledgments: Our work at the NTU Asian School of the Environment and the Earth Observatory of Singapore, part of Nanyang Technological University Singapore, is generously supported by grants from entities including the National Research Foundation Singapore, the Ministry of Education, Singapore (MOE), the "Collaborative Data Innovations for Sustainable Development" Award, The World Bank and the Asian Development Bank (ADB), among others. The perspectives I share are my own and not reflective of supporting institutions.#DisasterRiskReduction #ClimateChange #Resilience #BigData #TEDxTalk #TEDx #Sustainability #ClimateResilience #UrbanResilience
Shaping our future towards climate and disaster resilience | David Lallemant | TEDxNTU https://www.youtube.com/
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Great opportunity to work with an amazing team on people-centric multi-hazard resilience.
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How can we harness the power of big data for climate and disaster resilience?Last week, I had the pleasure of being a keynote speaker at the "Big Data for Disaster Response and Management" conference, organized in Sendai, Japan by the Asian Development Bank (ADB), APRU, and the International Research Institute of Disaster Science (IRIDeS) at Tohoku University.Big data presents immense opportunities in understanding the dynamics of extreme events and their societal impacts. During my keynote address, I emphasized the necessity to go beyond mere "big data" towards:• Time-dependent and dynamic data: Understanding the evolving nature of disaster risk is pivotal for building resilient communities.•Disaggregated data: Unveiling inequities in risk distribution enables targeted interventions, ensuring that vulnerable communities and people are not obscured in the data.•Counterfactual data: Exploring scenarios beyond historical records enhances our preparedness for unforeseen events.It was great to share these active areas of work we are pursuing at the Disaster Analytics for Society Lab, and it gave me the opportunity to develop some new drawings. These few days in Japan were so energizing! I was inspired by insights from fellow keynote speakers; Professor Nalini Venkatasubramanian underscored the importance of designing robust information systems tailored to community needs, drawing from her extensive work across various disasters. Likewise, Professor Koichi Kusunoki shared Japan's innovative approaches to seismic resilience, including the utilization of digital twins for scenario simulations.The panel discussion further enriched our discourse, with representatives from the Edward Anderson (World Bank), Belinda Hewitt (Asian Development Bank), and Prof. Ilan Noy (Victoria University of Wellington) shedding light on the imperative of data-informed development in the face of climate and disaster challenges (moderation by Abdul Abiad from ADB). A notable message from Prof. Ilan Noy: In preparing for the future climate, using more imagination is as important or more than sophisticated models (paraphrased).Beyond the professional exchange, visiting areas affected by the 2011 Great Japan Earthquake and Tsunami, particularly the Arahama Elementary School that served as the only standing shelter in the Arahama town, provided a poignant reminder of the human stories behind ‘disaster data’.Grateful for the opportunity to reconnect with peers and colleagues driving impactful work in this vital domain. Looking forward to continued collaboration towards building a safer, more resilient future.Thank you Ilan Noy, Madhavi Pundit, Takako Izumi, Christina Schönleber for the invitation!#BigData #DisasterManagement #Resilience #ClimateRisk #DisasterScienceAsian School of the Environment , Earth Observatory of Singapore, NTU College of Science
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