Science and technology

For a long time, coastal resilience was about building sea walls, elevating homes and enhancing beaches. Then came satellites, the cloud and a new generation of tech entrepreneurs with bold ideas for tackling a new challenge: rapidly rising sea levels and increasingly destructive storms. By using technology, these trailblazers are helping us better manage risks.

Built to last? is a new documentary inspired by businessman and DRR advocate Aris Papadopoulos based on his book Resilience - The Ultimate Sustainability

The FAO and Pennsylvania State University have launched a talking app, Nuru, to help African farmers recognize fall armyworm so that they can take immediate steps to destroy it and curb its spread. An important feature on the new tool is that it can work offline so farmers can use it whenever they want it, with even more features still to come.

Horizon 2020 CENTAUR project provides an innovative solution to European flooding through a cost-effective technique for the alleviation of urban flood risk. CENTAUR™ is an intelligent, autonomous, localised system which uses existing drainage network storage capacity for urban flood risk reduction and similar applications.

Americas conference closes with call to make disaster risk reduction a public policy priority.

Scientists meeting at the Regional Platform for the Americas discuss Sendai Framework as an opportunity to “unleash” science in the service of reducing the risks posed by natural disasters that take so many lives each year

At the Regional Platform for the Americas, mayors from five cities share their plans to reduce disaster losses as part of a three-year programme.

After becoming blind through ocular disease, retired geologist Tichico Joel Cobian Mena puts his knowledge to good use by working to include vulnerable people in community plans for disaster risk reduction.