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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.
UN global disasters forum opens with condolences for Oklahoma City tornado victims
21 May 2013, UNNC
Mr. Eliasson said that building resilience to disasters and making communities safer is 'our collective and shared responsibility,' adding that his visit to Japan earlier this year was a lesson on the urgency of reducing the risks for disasters...
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
- International conference on earthquake engineering29-31 May 2013, The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (Skopje)
- From response to resilience: The role of the engineer in disaster risk reduction04 Jun 2013, United Kingdom (London)
- Climate change adaptation strategy training course24-28 Jun 2013, Singapore
Manual de ingenieria naturalistica2012, Plan Intl; SNGR, Ecuador - gov; UNDP Ecuador
Owner's guide for earthquake resistant buildings2012, NIDM, India - gov
El Salvador: Healthcare facilities exposed to landslide susceptibility (high - very high)2010, COPECO, Honduras - gov; BGR, Germany - gov; INETER, Nicaragua - gov; INSIVUMEH, Guatemala - gov; SNET, El Salvador - gov
- Making Cities Resilient: Getting construction professionals involved - Webinars2012, CIB; UNISDR
- PASSA implementation in Nicaragua2012, British Red Cross; IFRC
- Counting disaster: Who's dying where?2011, BBC
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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