Excellent new report on risk, including some best practices, resulting from a recent conference.  The report – – Understanding Risk in an Evolving World: Emerging Best Practices in Natural Disaster Risk Assessment was prepared by the Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery.  A 16 page policy summary is available here.

Update: The full report is 224 pages, so I guess only the truly serious will download it!  Thanks to John Coleman for sending me the URL.