Early warning

A community focused early warning sytems is the urgent need of the hour to empower, to mitigate, to be aware and prepared for the onslaught of natural hazards and its impacts. However, we are also exposed to its limitations, scope and reach. Efforts are

This document illustrates the application to the Kafue river basin of the "Strategy for flood management", a tool which brings to the fore the proactive and integrated ways of managing floods for the sustainable development of our flood plains. The

Two volcanoes, Kanlaon and Mayon showed signs of unrest in 2003 prompting PHIVOLCS to raise their Alert Level status. Both volcanoes produced ash explosions although no damage was inflicted on the surrounding settlements. A major earthquake with magnitude

The scope of the present paper is to describe an exploratory analysis on the feasibility of a global flood hazard modelling, which would enable further studies on human vulnerability The method chosen is inspired by local peak-flow magnitude estimations

Fluvial floods are a common natural hazard in Europe. Only in the 90ies, large floods have affected the Meuse and Rhine, the Oder and the Po rivers. Following the devastating floods in the Elbe and Danube river basins in 2002, the European Commission

During the past few decades, economic losses and human casualties due to natural disasters increased exponentially on our planet, mainly because of the increased density of population and industry in high hazard areas. Although the prediction of

Under the program area four of the ITOWS program: the “Local Preparedness and Mitigation” has been uniquely devised as one of the most significant area of work. The Tsunami Resilient Communities (TRC) has planned as the core initiative to this local

This issue addresses floods as among the most destructive natural hazards causing extensive damage to infrastructure, public and private services, the environment, the economy and devastation to human settlements. It advocates for better preparedness at