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Using Geographic Information Systems (GIS) for mapping disaster risk reduction related hazard exposure, vulnerability and risk mapping.
Philippines: Geo-hazard maps go public
31 Jan 2012, IRIN
'By making these geo-hazard maps available to anyone for free, we hope to give every community or individual access to information needed for assessing flooding and landslide risks,' said MGB director Leo Jasareno...
Extracts of progress reports by progress indicator on the implementation of the Hyogo Framework for Action
- Indicator 2.1 [PDF, 116Kb]National and local risk assessments based on hazard data and vulnerability information are available and include risk assessments for key sectors
- Georisque 2012: Risques naturels sur les littoraux14-15 Feb 2012, Morocco (El Jadida)
- Expert group meeting on geo-reference disaster risk management information system in Asia-Pacific region15-17 Feb 2012, Thailand (Bangkok)
- Esri federal GIS conference22-24 Feb 2012, United States of America (Washington, D.C.)
- Postgraduate courses on 'Building resilience to climate change'UN-CECAR, Japan (Tokyo)
- Alpine Naturgefahren / Wildbach- und LawinenverbauungBOKU, Vienna
- Master Gestion des catastrophes et des risques naturelsUM3, France (Montpellier)
Roadmap to disaster reduction and response2012, Global Relief
Evidence, monthly UNISDR newsletter: issue 04, January 20122012, UNISDR
- Disaster risk reduction officerPakistan (Mirpur Khas), Save the Children Pakistan
- Consultant/firm mapping exercise and GIS supportHaiti (Port au Prince), ARC
External Online Resources
- Adaptation atlas
- Business partnerships with the UN International Strategy for Disaster Reduction
- Disaster risk reduction (DRR) project portal for Asia and the Pacific
- France: Cartorisque (in French)
- GEOweb: District of North Vancouver, Canada's GIS website
- Humanitarian early warning system (HEWS): HEWSweb
- International Charter: Space and major disaster activation maps
- IRI: climate and desert locust monitoring
- Locust watch
- Martinique: risques et nuisances (in French)
- PREVIEW Global Risk Data Platform
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