The UNDRR–ISC Hazard Information Profiles (HIPs) provide a comprehensive, science-based overview of 282 hazards relevant to disaster risk reduction. This 2025 edition reflects a major shift toward a multi-hazard understanding of risk – recognizing that hazards often interact, cascade, or occur together in ways that intensify their impacts.
First published in 2021 and now updated, the HIPs offer standardized definitions and key characteristics for a wide range of hazards across key clusters:
- Meteorological and Hydrological
- Extraterrestrial
- Geological
- Environmental
- Chemical
- Biological
- Technological
- Societal
The profiles also now include improved machine-readability, making them more usable in digital platforms, early warning systems, and risk assessment tools.
Widely used by governments, UN agencies, researchers, and disaster practitioners, the HIPs support more coherent risk analysis, planning, and reporting – strengthening the implementation of the Sendai Framework, the Sustainable Development Goals, and climate adaptation strategies.
Please note that the report and its supplement are currently undergoing minor revisions. Final versions will be published shortly.
Chair: Virginia Murray, UK Health Security Agency
Project Manager: Helene Jacot Des Combes, International Science Council
ISC and UNDRR leads:
- Anne-Sophie Stevance, International Science Council
- Jenty Kirsch-Wood, United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction
- Marcus Elten, United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction
Other Members:
- Andrea Hinwood, United Nations Environment Programme (alternate Dina Abdelhakim)
- Bapon Fakhruddin, Green Climate Fund
- James Douris, World Meteorological Organization (alternate Britney Shaw)
- John Rees, British Geological Survey, UK (alternate Julia Crummy)
- Justin Ginnetti, International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies
- Katie Peters, The World Bank
- Michael Nagy, United Nations Economic Commission for Europe
- Nicholas Bishop, International Organization for Migration (alternate Camille Balfroid)
- Ed Pope, Insurance Development Forum (alternate Nick Moody)
- Ohran Osmani, International Telecommunications Unit
- Osvaldo Luiz Leal de Moraes, Federal University of Brazil
- Paul Conrad, United Nations Development Programme
- Qudsia Huda, World Health Organization
- Richard Hartshorn, University of Canterbury, and International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry 2016–23
- Simon Hodson, Committee on Data of the International Science Council (alternate Matti Heikkurinen)
- Tom De Groeve, Joint Research Centre of the European Commission
- Urbano Fra Paleo, University of Extremadura, Spain
- Victoria Hollertz, UK Health Security Agency
- Wirya Khim, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (alternate Tamara van ’t Wout)
For the full list of contributors, including Technical Groups Members, please see the report.
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