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The Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction highlights that: “Policies and practices for disaster risk management should be based on an understanding of disaster risk in all its dimensions of vulnerability, capacity, exposure of persons and assets, hazard characteristics and the environment” (UNISDR, 2015e). As discussed above, achieving this requires that independent research and policy communities work together and overcome challenges that separate them (Thomalla et al., 2006).