{"id":2199,"date":"2015-03-16T16:22:34","date_gmt":"2015-03-16T16:22:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/?p=2199"},"modified":"2018-04-22T12:11:23","modified_gmt":"2018-04-22T16:11:23","slug":"watch-why-risk-informed-development-makes-communities-more-resilient","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/blog\/2015\/03\/watch-why-risk-informed-development-makes-communities-more-resilient\/","title":{"rendered":"WATCH: Why risk-informed development makes communities more resilient"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the last 20 years, we&#8217;ve seen over 1.3 million people killed and more than 4 billion affected by disasters that have cost at least US$2 trillion.\u00a0It is clear that we will never eradicate poverty or achieve sustainable development goals so long as disasters continue to set back progress. But it doesn&#8217;t have to be this way.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 hundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-overflow:visible;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-one-full fusion-column-first fusion-column-last fusion-column-no-min-height\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-margin-bottom:0px;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy\">[tweetthis url=&#8221;http:\/\/wp.me\/p5Mdaw-zt&#8221;]Since 1995,\u00a0disasters affected 4 billion people costing US$2 trillion. We can change this. #action2015 #wcdrr[\/tweetthis]\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>While weak development choices expose people to disasters, good, risk-informed development makes people and communities more resilient. In this animated video, UNDP explains it&#8217;s approach to disaster risk reduction and stresses that &#8216;if it isn&#8217;t risk-informed, it isn&#8217;t sustainable development&#8217;.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-1 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-one-full fusion-column-first fusion-column-last fusion-column-no-min-height\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-margin-bottom:0px;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy\"><div class=\"fusion-video fusion-youtube\" style=\"--awb-max-width:800px;--awb-max-height:467px;\"><div class=\"video-shortcode\"><div class=\"fluid-width-video-wrapper\" style=\"padding-top:58.38%;\" ><iframe title=\"YouTube video player 1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3KxcJ81SF_k?wmode=transparent&autoplay=0\" width=\"800\" height=\"467\" allowfullscreen allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture;\"><\/iframe><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the last 20 years, we&#8217;ve seen over 1.3 million people killed and more than 4 billion affected by disasters that have cost at least US$2 trillion. It is clear that we will never eradicate poverty or achieve sustainable development goals so long as disasters continue to set back progress. But it doesn&#8217;t have to be this way. While weak development choices expose people to disasters, good, risk-informed development makes people and communities more resilient.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":98,"featured_media":2209,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[19,20,16,17,4],"tags":[94,49,84,39,89],"class_list":["post-2199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cities","category-climate-change","category-economic-growth","category-infrastructure","category-news","tag-cities","tag-disaster","tag-disaster-planning","tag-disaster-risk-reduction","tag-preparedness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/98"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2199\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}