New York City is just beginning to gird for the '100-year storm'

3 Feb 2012, Capital

In her article for Capital, Katharine Jose addresses a very real danger the city may be facing as a result of environmental changes already well underway: Sea-level rise. 'You have to stop building more assets in a risky way in flood zones. Start with avoiding bad things for the future'...

• Japan: Tokyo conducts disaster drill at stations, companies

  3 Feb 2012, Mainichi Daily news, the

  Organized by the Tokyo metropolitan government, the drill was based on the scenario that a magnitude 7.3 quake had halted public transportation following the Great East Japan Earthquake 2011...

• Gambia: Agencies oriented on DRR component of PAGE

  3 Feb 2012, NDMA, Gambia - gov

  The gov launches the Programme for Accelerated Growth and Employment as the development blue print and strategy for the Gambia, 2012-2015, fully incorporating cross cutting issues of disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation as development imperative and priority...