Ä¢¹½´«Ã½

These proceedings of the 2010 Understanding Risk (UR) Forum summarize presentations by leaders of forum sessions, risk experts and practitioners from around the world. It details the fast-paced innovation in risk assessment and documents what can be done to better understand the potential impact of the next monsoon floods in South Asia, earthquakes in the Caribbean and Latin America, tsunamis in East Asia, and droughts in Sub-Saharan Africa.

It contains: (i) Haiti, January 12 and beyond; (ii) Floods and droughts: assessing and predicting the risks; (iii) Disaster risk assessment in current and future climates; (iv) Farming data: what's new in agriculture risk modelling; (v) Community-based risk assessment; (vi) Making ends meet: how communities can use risk assessment results; (vii) Risk perception and communication; (viii) Black swans and white whales; (ix) Extraction of exposure information from Earth observation; (x) Crowdsourcing risk assessment: wisdom of the crowds; (xi) Open source spatial web and open data; (xii) Climate risk modelling: managing extremes toward sustainability; (xiii) Risk modelling beyond insurance: analysing the catastrophe exposure of the state; (xiv) Sub-regional risk assessments: a tool for national investment planning; (xv) Measuring the unmeasurable; (xvi) The global assessment report (GAR); and (xvii) Global earthquake model.