Critical infrastructure

A Daily Yomiuri editorial reminds that Sept. 1 is designated Disaster Prevention Day in Japan: local governments learn from experience by conducting drills and urges utilities, such as electric power companies, to make efforts to boost their preparedness for a major earthquake or tsunami...

In New Orleans, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is undergoing the largest disaster risk reduction project ever done in the nation's history, 'the hurricane protection system should be completed by this time next year.'...

In his post, Senior Attorney and Natural Resources Defense Council's staff Jon Devine answers the questions: What kind of damage will Irene do? Is your city prepared for it? An NRDC report providies some insight by exploring similar anticipated impacts from extreme weather...

Global leaders convening Monday at the opening session of the 2011 World Water Week in Stockholm called for increased investments in disaster-resilient infrastructure and smarter water management to avoid droughts, floods and pollution...

NOAA is launching a comprehensive initiative to make America safer by saving more lives and protecting livelihoods and communities from severe weather events, such as tornado outbreaks, intense heat waves, flooding, active hurricane seasons...

El director de la Conagua, José Luis Luege, alertó que el cambio climático incrementa la vulnerabilidad del valle de México al provocar sequías, lluvias y ciclones de mayor severidad, con lo que se afecta la disponibilidad de agua...

'Failing to minimize and manage the risk is a dereliction of duty to everyone who is vulnerable,' writes William S. Becker in his article for the Huffington Post...

This paper summarises the nuclear safety infrastructure of the Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) nuclear facilities. It presents the safety requirements, standards, and performance expectations in relation to the risks involved in order to withstand severe