The WRI is based on 28 indicators and research data which are globally freely available, and risk is at its highest where a high level of exposure to natural hazards (which can be provoked or affected by anthropogenic processes, e.g. land-use change, drainage, and construction) coincides with very vulnerable societies.
Worldtech Resources Institute, a business college in Camarines Sur province, Philippines Weingarten Realty Investors, an American real estate investment trust Wesley Research Institute, a medical research institute affiliated with Wesley Hospital (Brisbane), Australia Wolfram Research, Inc., an American software development company World Resources Institute, a non-profit group working for sustainable natural resource management War Resisters' International, an international anti-war organization Weber Research Institute, a research group at the Polytechnic Institute of New York University "WRI", designation sometimes used for a Write-in candidate Wire Reinforcement Institute, American trade association for wire reinforcement of concrete construction .WRI, file extension for a Microsoft Write file WRI, IATA code for McGuire Air Force Base Wuhan Research Institute of Post & Telecommunications, a branch of Wuhan University Windber Research Institute, a non-profit biomedical research institute in Windber, Pennsylvania Scottish Women's Rural Institutes (known as WRI or SWRI), former name of Scottish Women's Institutes Natural hazards can be provoked or affected by anthropogenic processes, e.g. land-use change, drainage and construction. The International Early Warning Program (IEWP), was first proposed at the Second International Early Warning Conference (EWCII) in 2003 in Bonn, Germany. 
