Early warning

'The rising trend of disaster risk can be stopped if national leaders govern with commitment, responsibility, and accountability to bring about a safer and more resilient society', challenged Senator Loren Legarda, of the Philippine Senate Committee on Foreign Relations...

A new National Research Council report presents a 20-year road map for increasing the USA's resilience to earthquakes, including a major earthquake that could strike a highly populated area. It includes an 18-task road map for implementing the strategic plan adopted by the National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program...

Homeowners, farmers, private business, and government agencies in Southeast Europe and the Caucasus will have access to affordable disaster insurance thanks to an innovative new program supported by World Bank financing...

While it seems unlikely that existing systems could have done much to avert last week’s tragic events in New Zealand, The Engineer reports on recent developments by UK and Russian engineers working on a satellite system able to detect the subtle electromagnetic signals released as stress builds up in the earth prior to an earthquake...

'It is projected that in future extreme events would be much more gigantic', stated Eng Mahboub Maalim, the executive secretary of the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD), urging governments in the region to develop measures against climate risks...

A Agência de Cooperação Internacional do Japão apresentou um plano que prevê medidas com o objetivo de que a população da Bacia Hidrográfica do Rio Itajaí-Açunão sofra mais com a instabilidade do clima e com suas consequencias, como o desastre ambiental de novembro de 2008...

This report presents the findings of the Mid-Term Review of the Hyogo Framework for Action (HFA) aimed at critically analyzing the extent to which HFA implementation has progressed and at helping countries and their institutional partners identify

India is pioneering efforts to incorporate disaster management in development planning says N Vinod Chandra Menon, a former member of the Indian government’s National Disaster, in an editorial calling for increased community-level information exchange, capacity development, risk assessment and early warning...