Usable Concepts for Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR)

1. The ‘Rs’ of Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR)

2. Satisfice

3. Foreseeability

4. Re-function

5. “Social Inventions”

6. Zero-order Responders

7. IMPROVISatory

8. Lessons identified ≠ Lessons learned

9. Creeping environmental problems (CEPs)

10. Drought follows the plow (DFP)

11. Re-educate

12. Resilient Adaptation

13. Grain storage improvements

14. Climate Change Risk Disclosure (CCRD)

15. CCR(+B)D development

16. Late Warning Systems

17. Sunsetting DRR assistance programs

18. Reversed Triage: Help the bottom group first

19. Hotspots Pyramid

20. “The 3 ‘O’s”

21. Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) Bank

22. Forecasting By Analogy (FBA) and the search for “lessons”

23. Mitigating the impacts of Climate Change Adaptation (CCA)

24. Assigning a “Project Scribe”

25. “End-to-end-to-end” (E2E) forecast system

26. DRR RANN

27. “Ordinary knowledge” as a concept

28. Working with a changing climate, not against it

29. “Partnership vs. Ownership (of projects that seek to bridge DRR and CCA)”

30. Climate Proofing

31. Risk taking, risk aversion … and risk making

32. Decision Making Under Uncertainty (DMUU)

33. Decision Making Under Foreseeability (DMUF)