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Critical Infrastructure
The primary physical structures, technical facilities and systems whose disruption, failure or destruction have a serious impact on the functioning of society, the economy or the state within a natural hazard induced disaster context.
Thailand: Mapping out where to live and build
4 Feb 2012, Bangkok Post
The Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) City Planning Department has drawn up a 3D city planning map highlighting traffic routes, infrastructure and risk areas for potential property owners and developers...
Extracts of progress reports by progress indicator on the implementation of the Hyogo Framework for Action
- Indicator 4.2 [PDF, 102Kb]Social development policies and plans are being implemented to reduce the vulnerability of populations most at risk
- Indicator 4.3 [PDF, 93Kb]Economic and productive sectorial policies and plans have been implemented to reduce the vulnerability of economic activities
- Indicator 4.6 [PDF, 85Kb]Procedures are in place to assess the disaster risk impacts of major development projects, especially infrastructure
- Indicator 5.3 [PDF, 86Kb]Financial reserves and contingency mechanisms are in place to support effective response and recovery when required.
- E-learning course on safe and resilient cities06-29 Feb 2012, United States of America (Washington D.C.)
- Emergency management summer institute12-16 Mar 2012, New Zealand (Wellington)
- All hazards-all stakeholders summits 201221 Mar 2012, United States of America (Seattle)
- Disaster management & humanitarian assistance certificateUH Mānoa, United States of America (Honolulu, Hawaiʻi)
- Postgraduate diploma in emergency managementMassey University
- Master 2 - Sciences de la Terre et de l’Environnement, Spécialité AGI (Aménagement et Géo-ingénierie)UNS, France (Nice)
Central and Eastern United States seismic source characterization for nuclear facilities: technical report2012, EPRI; NRC, United States of America - gov; DOE, United States of America - gov
Responding to climate change in New York State: the ClimAID integrated assessment for effective climate change adaptation2011, CUNY; Columbia Univ; Cornell Univ; NYSERDA, United States of America - gov
- Food security, early warning, early response (EWER) manager / IMPROVE projectSouth Sudan (Bor, Jonglei State), CRS
- Administrative coordinatorNairobi, Solidarités Intl
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