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China joins lower Mekong River countries to study impacts of climate change, dams

China and the countries of the lower Mekong River are teaming up for their largest joint study yet of the impacts climate change and hydropower dams are having on one of Asia's great waterways.
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Harnessing nature to reduce Gulf Coast flood and chemical exposure risk

The National Academy of Sciences has funded a project that will identify nature-based solutions that can address climate-induced flood risks bearing down on industrial facilities in Galveston Bay, Texas and limit future disasters.
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Miami building collapse puts spotlight on climate change risks

Could rising seas contribute to undermining coastal buildings around the world?
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Condo collapse could transform building codes in Florida

When Hurricane Andrew devastated south Miami 30 years ago, the state’s building codes underwent a major revision. The collapse of the Surfside building could do the same.

MCR2030 Sign Up Webinar: Building the Disaster Resilience of Cities in Asia-Pacific

United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction - Regional Office for Asia and Pacific
ICLEI - Local Governments for Sustainability
United Cities and Local Governments Asia-Pacific
Bangkok
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Below aging U.S. dams, a potential toxic calamity

Documents suggest that in more than 80 U.S. locations, the failure of an aging dam could flood a major toxic waste site.
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First Meeting of Inter-Agency and Expert Group on Disaster-related Statistics (IAEG-DRS)

United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction
United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific
Sky Designs/Shutterstock
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UF research team develops system that could provide energy resilience to hurricanes, disasters

University of Florida has developed a solar powered system that uses artificial intelligence to decrease the cost of electrical devices running through a power outage.
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Sub-regional workshop on land-use planning and industrial safety for South-Eastern Europe

United Nations Economic Commission for Europe
Documents and publications

Enschede cries – Restoring ontological security after a fireworks disaster

The article claims that to those affected, disaster is an existential experience. For them, it is an unexpected existential ‘event’ clearly separating a ‘before’ from an ‘after’. In the academic disaster domain however the ‘disaster as event’ is being