Critical infrastructure

The European Commission criticised airport authorities for failing to prepare for the bad weather, as heavy snowfall and freezing temperatures were still severely disrupting air traffic in Europe on Tuesday, and may draft new rules if airport operators would not take action voluntarily to plan better for severe weather...

Experts call Vietnam for better preparedness and timely and effective early warnings, and warn that storms will get worse and more erratic as a result of climate change...

In this opinion, the chairman of the Indonesian Landscape Architecture Study Group calls for the public in general, government institutions and the private sector to work together to achieve sustainable urban development that relies on mitigation and adaptation in addressing climate-related disasters and climate change...

This document presents some solutions for mitigating earthquake hazard for new school and existing buildings, with respect to the challenges faced by each category. It describes the concept of retrofitting and explains the techniques of vulnerability

This document presents general practices of safe school construction and the retrofitting of existing school buildings through typical design and drawing of schools as developed and practised in Aceh and West Sumtra Earthquake Response programmes. The

This article discusses the drivers of climate change in the HinduKush Himalayan region. It describes the geological and climatically induced hazards, such as earthquakes, heavy rainfalls, floods, glacial lake outburst floods and landslides, and their

75 per cent of critical medical facilities require seismic retrofitting in order to ensure structural safety in the event of a severe earthquake according to a new study - 'Seismic Screening of Critical Medical Facilities in Kingston' carried out by doctoral student Kevin Tankoo...

This report offers an assessment of the extent to which the EU-Budget is currently contributing to tackling the challenges of climate change, biodiversity loss and resource overconsumption. It considers resilience to fire and floods and other natural