Previous reports

The GAR Atlas presents the risk associated with a number of hazards (earthquakes, tsunamis, riverine flooding, cyclonic winds and storm surge) with a global level of observation and a national level of resolution. By using the same methodology, arithmetic and exposure model to calculate the risk for all these hazards, the GAR Atlas provides globally comparable multi-hazard risk metrics and enables comparisons of risk levels between countries and regions and across hazard types. In this way, the GAR Atlas facilitates a better understanding of the global risk landscape, enabling the estimation of the order of magnitude of probable losses in each country, and taking into account the risk contributions from different hazards.

The 2015 edition presents the case for a broad reinterpretation of disaster risk reduction. As the HFA was drawing to a close, GAR15 questions whether the way in which disaster risk reduction has been approached under the HFA is really fit for purpose in a world now threatened by catastrophic increases in disaster risk. It showed why the focus of disaster risk reduction needs to move from managing disasters to managing risks if it is to contribute to making development sustainable.

The 2013 edition explored the nexus between private investment and disaster risk and showed how  businesses can invest in managing their disaster risks to reduce the costs and interruptions represented by  disaster losses and impacts, and how they can enhance performance and reputation by minimizing uncertainty and unpredictability.

The 2011 edition identified effective public policies to address the disaster risk–poverty nexus and the political and economic imperatives and constraints for increased public investment in disaster risk reduction. Using innovative hybrid probabilistic risk models, GAR11 produced risk profiles for a number of countries in order to demonstrate how a risk-layered approach to managing disaster risks could maximize benefits while reducing costs.

The 2009 edition of the GAR provided evidence that disaster risk is disproportionately concentrated in lower-income countries with weak governance and explores how underlying drivers such as badly planned and managed urban development, vulnerable rural livelihoods, environmental degradation, poverty and inequality, further generate and accumulate disaster risk in low-income communities and households.