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Communicating Disaster Risk Reduction Through Web-Map Applications

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Significant number of disaster risk reduction projects is implemented around the world. Each of these projects can provide guidelines for future projects and can be adopted by other communities if their information is properly communicated and shared. These projects can also become a useful source of knowledge for teaching and training of future disaster risk reduction professionals. This chapter describes a disaster risk reduction web mapping project called MapDRR that uses ESRI Webapp Builder to map more than 600 disaster risk reduction projects around the world. This application uses advances in web mapping to add more values to the existing online information about the disaster risk reduction projects. MapDRR covers a diverse range of DRR cases implemented in many different countries to reduce the risk of different types of disasters at local, regional, national, and international levels. MapDRR provides both textual and contextual (visual) information to users by zooming into each project. MapDRR is enhanced regularly to include more DRR cases, countries.

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Acknowledgments

Authors would like to acknowledge the following York University Students for their efforts in collecting the initial disaster risk reduction projects: Amina Mohammad Ali, Arham Arshad, Adam Witts, Ahmad Chaudhry, Andrea Nguyen, Colette Clarke, Dan Gutin, Toroptsev Denys, Fatemeh Nourinejad, Gita Javaheri, Hema Bahl, Hilal Faizal, Jean Kadenhe, Kevin Mak, Mohand Radi, Muhammad Mirza, Nima Sarjahani, Oliver Sandford, Paolo Di Rezze, Rudo Kadenhe, Rumaila Soin, Ryan Lucknauth, Sadegh Taheri, Sara Akib, Shahzaib Khalid, Shivam Kapoor, Toan Ly Ngo, Zaigham Imran, Tyler Willson, Uzma Bhatti, Vilma Lopez Luna, AllenRenee, and Maryanne Bendell.

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  1. Disaster and Emergency Management, School of Administrative Studies, York University, Toronto, Canada

    Ali Asgary

  2. Communication & Culture Studies, York University, Toronto, Canada

    Daryoush Kari

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Correspondence to Ali Asgary .

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  1. Institute of Disaster Management (WIDM) , Mississauga, Ontario, Canada

    Saied Pirasteh

  2. Department of Geography & Environmental Management, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

    Jonathan Li

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Asgary, A., Kari, D. (2017). Communicating Disaster Risk Reduction Through Web-Map Applications. In: Pirasteh, S., Li, J. (eds) Global Changes and Natural Disaster Management: Geo-information Technologies . Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-51844-2_7

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