GIS and mapping

Using Geographic Information Systems (GIS) for mapping disaster risk, hazard, exposure and vulnerability.

Latest GIS and mapping additions in the Knowledge Base

Geotechnologies and the environment series, vol. 1:

This book includes a chapter 'Situating urban environmental risk: using GIScience to understand risk in a midwestern city' which uses a GIScience approach toward assessing and correlating the

Twenty years after the Loma Prieta earthquake caused loss of life and widespread property damage, advances in science, technology and engineering have the San Francisco Bay Area better prepared for the next big earthquake...
United States Geological Survey
Photo by Flikr user IRRI, Residents of Los Baños and Bay towns, along the coast of Laguna de Bay and about 60 kilometers south of Manila, cope with floodwaters that have not receded 3 days after Typhoon Ondoy ravaged the Philippines. Creative Comm
'Disasters are becoming increasingly costly in terms of lives and destruction' said Melisa Bodenhamer, World Vision's expert in DRR. 'There must be a paradigm shift in the way that organizations think about development work'...
Thomson Reuters Foundation, trust.org
photo by flickr user epugachev, creative commons attribution 2.0 generic
The Caribbean Net News reports that '"Tsunami Ready" ready...will mean completion of inundation modelling and mapping, identification and publicizing of evacuation routes, installation of signage and a program of staff training and public education about tsunami risk and response...'
Caribbean Net News
photo by Flickr user IRRI Images, creative commons attribution-noncommercial-share alike 2.0 generic
The Bulletin reports that the Australian government has launched new DRR initiatives in the Philippines including mainstreaming, climate change adaptation in local and land use plans and processes, and technical assistance to the National Mapping and Resource Information Authority...
Manila Bulletin Publishing Corporation
photo by Flickr user, Isabel Munilla, World Resources Institute, 2008, creative commons attribution-noncommercial-share alike 2.0 generic
The German Red Cross, in close cooperation with the Peruvian Red Cross, is set to begin a project in four Peruvian districts to develop disaster risk reduction through education and local risk management...
German Red Cross
The National Emergency Management Organization of Belize is participating in a two-day workshop on risk assessment, formally known as CAPRA, or the Central American Probabilistic Risk Assessment, an initiative of the Inter-American Development Bank...
R.S.V. LTD
The Can Tho Steering Committee for Climate Change is drafting sets of climate change adaptation maps for three areas of Can Tho City in order to identify areas which will be impacted the most by climate change and minimise the consequences of 'natural' disasters...
Viet Nam News, Vietnam News Agency

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