The Federal Emergency Management Agency, in partnership
with organizations that collectively represent the emergency management
profession, released today the sixth video presentation from the inaugural
PrepTalks Symposium, Francis Ghesquiere's "The Making of a Resilient
Future: Disaster Risk in Developing Countries."
In his PrepTalk, Ghesquiere presents a global perspective
on the need to improve disaster resilience. He highlights the scale of the
challenge, from rapid urbanization in areas at risk of earthquakes and floods,
to the increasing frequency and intensity of storms. He discusses the need for
all sectors to participate in planning and to incorporate future trends in
population growth, urbanization, and increasing risk due to future environmental
conditions. Ghesquiere heads the Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and
Recovery (GFDRR), a global partnership hosted by the World Bank with programs
in more than 80 countries. In a recent report, The making of a riskier future:
How our decisions are shaping future disaster risk, GFDRR demonstrates how
"tomorrow's risk is being built today. We must therefore move away from
risk assessments that show risk at a single point in the present and move
instead towards risk assessments that can guide decision makers towards a
resilient future." Ghesquiere focuses on the importance of this future
perspective in his PrepTalk.
Ghesquiere's presentation, the question-and-answer
session that followed, a discussion guide, and additional reference materials
are available at https://www.fema.gov/preptalks.
This is the sixth video of eight being produced from the PrepTalks Symposium
held in Washington, D.C. in January. The next PrepTalks Symposium is
tentatively scheduled for fall of 2018. Upcoming PrepTalk video topics include
lessons learned from disaster survivors and financial literacy. The next
PrepTalks video is currently scheduled for release later this month.
PrepTalks are a partnership between FEMA, the
International Association of Emergency Managers, the National Emergency
Management Association, the National Homeland Security Consortium, and the
Naval Postgraduate School Center for Homeland Defense and Security.
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