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Structural Safety
Any physical construction to reduce or avoid possible impacts of hazards, or application of engineering techniques to achieve hazard-resistance and resilience in structures or systems.
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'...
Extracts of progress reports by progress indicator on the implementation of the Hyogo Framework for Action
- Indicator 4.1 [PDF, 104Kb]Disaster risk reduction is an integral objective of environment related policies and plans, including for land use natural resource management and adaptation to climate change
- Indicator 4.4 [PDF, 101Kb]Planning and management of human settlements incorporate disaster risk reduction elements, including enforcement of building codes
- Indicator 4.5 [PDF, 87Kb]Disaster risk reduction measures are integrated into post disaster recovery and rehabilitation processes
- Georisque 2012: Risques naturels sur les littoraux14-15 Feb 2012, Morocco (El Jadida)
- 2012 Sustainable water management conference18-21 Mar 2012, United States of America (Portland, Oregon)
- Coastal cities summit 201230 Apr - 03 May 2012, United States of America (St. Petersburg, Florida)
- Postgraduate diploma in emergency managementMassey University
- Alpine Naturgefahren / Wildbach- und LawinenverbauungBOKU, Vienna
- MSc Earthquake engineering with disaster managementUCL, United Kingdom (London)
External Online Resources
- British Red Cross: Better prepared after the tsunami
- Business partnerships with the UN International Strategy for Disaster Reduction
- Confined Masonry Network
- Disaster risk reduction (DRR) project portal for Asia and the Pacific
- Earthquake Hazard Centre: Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
- GFDRR: Safer homes, safer communities website
- Institute for Business and Home Safety: disaster safety portal
- International Platform for Reducing Earthquake Diasters (IPRED)
- ProCivibus: A crowdsourcing system for collaborative emergency planning
- Quake loss assessment for rescue and mitigation (QLARM)
- The Global Task Force on Building Codes (GTFBC)
- UK Climate Impacts Programme: Adaptation actions database
- World Housing Encyclopedia (WHE)
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