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Disaster risk reduction

Reducing harm before disaster strikes. Earthquakes such as Kermanshah in 2017 and Kahramanmaraş in 2023 hit Kurdish areas.

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Faculty
Faculty of Economic and Social Development
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  1. Department of Water Resources Engineering, College of Engineering, Salahaddin University-Erbil, Kurdistan Region, Iraq, Zhian Ahmed, Jehan Suleimany (2025). The Drought Hazard and Drought Risk Indices for Mandawa Basins in the Iraqi Kurdistan Region. Sulaimani Journal for Engineering Sciences. DOI 10.17656/sjes.102006
  2. Dass Foundation for Research and Development (2026). Application of Markov Chain Modeling for Assessing Rainfall Dynamics and Drought Probability in the Kurdistan Region (2026–2041). Zenodo. DOI 10.5281/zenodo.19581174
  3. Haidar Khezri (2017). Kurdistan earthquake: politics creates roadblocks to relief. The Conversation Media Group Ltd. DOI 10.64628/aai.647tdjtae
  4. David Romano (2020). Sub-state actors and foreign policy risk-taking: The Kurdistan Regional Government of Iraq. Kurdish Studies. DOI 10.33182/ks.v8i2.533
  5. Shevan J. Jirjees, Imaddadin O. Hassan, Shwan O. Seeyan (2022). Hydrometeorological Data Analysis and Drought Indices of Rawandoz Area, Iraqi-Kurdistan Region. ZANCO JOURNAL OF PURE AND APPLIED SCIENCES. DOI 10.21271/zjpas.34.6.17

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01Fields

The A narrower topic within a discipline. this discipline covers.

  • Earthquake preparedness
  • Early warning
  • Community preparedness
  • Risk assessment
  • Recovery and reconstruction

02Classification

Where the discipline sits in the international lists of fields.

SchemeCodeSteward
OECD Fields of Research and Development (FORD), Frascati Manual 2015, Table 2.25.9OECD
ISCED Fields of Education and Training 2013 (ISCED-F 2013)1032UNESCO Institute for Statistics

03Courses

Proposed 1

A A record of what was studied and assessed in a course or pathway; it is not a certificate or a qualification. shows what was studied and assessed. It is not a certificate or a qualification.

04Communities of practice

  • Community of practice: Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Adaptation

    A A proposal only, which exists once the governing body the charter names decides. A group of practitioners of one field who work together on courses, standards and toolkits; the charter calls it a Standards area. on disaster risk and climate adaptation across Kurdistan.

    Proposed

05Contribute to this field

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06Related service subsites

  • Development

    Social programmes, livelihoods and disaster preparedness for Kurdish communities.

  • Civic

    Civic education, rights literacy, statelessness help and dialogue.

  • Research

    Kurdish studies: the observatory, reading lists and new research.

07More in this department

  • Open

    Climate change adaptation

    Preparing for heat, drought and failing water, and the migration they can cause.

    1 course4 fields

  • Open

    Humanitarian action

    Relief and protection under humanitarian principles, in camps, cities and host communities.

    1 course5 fields

  • Proposed

    Water security and governance

    Water security studies how shared rivers and aquifers are governed across states and users.

    0 courses4 fields

  • Proposed

    Environment and natural resource governance

    Laws and communities that protect forests, rivers and wetlands, and policy on sand and dust storms.

    0 courses4 fields

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The Kurdish Cooperation Organization. (2026). Disaster risk reduction. kurds.global. https://kurds.global/learn/disciplines/disaster-risk-reduction/

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The Kurdish Cooperation Organization. 2026. “Disaster Risk Reduction.” kurds.global. https://kurds.global/learn/disciplines/disaster-risk-reduction/.

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	year = {2026},
	note = {Licence: CC BY 4.0},
	title = {Disaster risk reduction},
	url = {https://kurds.global/learn/disciplines/disaster-risk-reduction/},
	howpublished = {https://kurds.global/learn/disciplines/disaster-risk-reduction/},
}

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08Research and sources

Recent and relevant work on this page’s subject, from approved open scholarly sources. Metadata and links only. Titles stay as published. Not yet reviewed.

  1. The Drought Hazard and Drought Risk Indices for Mandawa Basins in the Iraqi Kurdistan Region

    Department of Water Resources Engineering, College of Engineering, Salahaddin University-Erbil, Kurdistan Region, Iraq, Zhian Ahmed, Jehan Suleimany · 2025 · Sulaimani Journal for Engineering Sciences

    ArticleCrossref

  2. Application of Markov Chain Modeling for Assessing Rainfall Dynamics and Drought Probability in the Kurdistan Region (2026–2041)

    Dass Foundation for Research and Development · 2026 · Zenodo

    ArticleDataCiteZenodoOpen accessCC-BY-4.0

  3. Kurdistan earthquake: politics creates roadblocks to relief

    Haidar Khezri · 2017 · The Conversation Media Group Ltd

    PreprintCrossrefOpenAIRE

  4. Sub-state actors and foreign policy risk-taking: The Kurdistan Regional Government of Iraq

    David Romano · 2020 · Kurdish Studies

    ArticleCrossref

  5. Hydrometeorological Data Analysis and Drought Indices of Rawandoz Area, Iraqi-Kurdistan Region

    Shevan J. Jirjees, Imaddadin O. Hassan, Shwan O. Seeyan · 2022 · ZANCO JOURNAL OF PURE AND APPLIED SCIENCES

    ArticleCrossrefDOAJOpen access

  6. Tectonic interpretation of the Raniya earthquake, Kurdistan, northern Iraq

    Jamal A. H. Doski · 2018 · Journal of Seismology

    ArticleCrossrefOpenAIRE

  7. Climatic Parameters Use for Evaluating Water Budget and Drought Analysis in Erbil Sub-basin, Kurdistan Region, Northern-Iraq

    Shevan Jameel Jirjees · 2024 · Zanco Journal of Pure and Applied Sciences

    ArticleDOAJOpen access

  8. Evaluation of TRMM and ECMWF Data for Drought Time Monitoring (Case Study: Kurdistan Province)

    M. Ahmadi, H. Ramezani Etedali, A. Kaviai et al. · 2023 · Journal of Water and Soil Science

    ArticleCrossrefDOAJOpen access

  9. Effect of Drought on Vegetation Cover Using MODIS Sensing Images Case : Kurdistan Province

    shosein mirmosavei, hamideh kareimei · 2013 · جغرافیا و توسعه

    ArticleDOAJOpen access

  10. Studying the potential and risk of liquefaction zoning in the Saqqez unit (Iran-Kurdistan)

    Semko Arefpanah, Alireza Sharafi, Bavandi Omid · 2025 · Journal of Civil Engineering Frontiers

    ArticleOpenAIREOpen access

  11. Severity of Damage Due to 2017 Kurdistan Region of Iraq-Iran border Earthquake (Halabja Earthquake)

    Wrya Abdullah, Serwan Khorsheed Rafiq, Younis M. Alshkane · 2020 · IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering

    ArticleCrossrefOpenAIREOpen accessCC-BY-3.0

  12. In Vitro Evaluation of Iraqi Kurdistan Tomato Accessions Under Drought Stress Conditions Using Polyethylene Glycol-6000

    Nawroz Abdul-razzak Tahir, Kamaran Salh Rasul, Djshwar Dhahir Lateef et al. · 2024 · Life

    ArticleDOAJOpen access

Sources, licences and fetch dates: Crossref (Metadata facts, any use; abstracts may be publisher-owned and are never shown), 2026-10-23; DataCite (CC0 1.0 (DataCite metadata)), 2026-10-23; DOAJ (Metadata CC0 1.0 (DOAJ); articles under their own open licences), 2026-10-23; OpenAIRE (CC BY 4.0 (OpenAIRE Graph)), 2026-10-23; Zenodo (Metadata CC0 1.0; each record under its own licence), 2026-10-23.

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