Services that support efforts to avoid disasters

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The Disasters Avoided initiative began in September 2022. It is a joint initiative between Risk Insight Consulting and senior academics at UCL (London) and UMBC (Washington, DC).

The initiative focuses on how action can be taken to avoid disasters, and it includes examples and case studies that support research and influence policy. 

The Disasters Avoided initiative includes the following:

1. A research-informed model that describes six factors to avoid disasters.
2. Examples and case studies of how disasters are and have been avoided.
3. Publications and communications to share research and case studies.
   

Data security and data privacy is of paramount importance. Data and documentation can be retained in-house or stored through a secure hosted solution.

A range of research is undertaken into disaster risk reduction and how to avoid disasters. Research work includes the following:

• Policy papers.
• Advisory and technical papers.
• Research into matters relating to specific geographic areas (e.g. small islands, cities, specific countries/regions).
• Research into matters relating to focal areas that can span across geographic areas (e.g. air pollution, wildfires, flooding).

Research projects for clients can be undertaken in a range of different ways to suit a particular context, requirement and objective.

Examples of research that have been conducted can be provided on request.