Risk identification and assessment

This brochure describes; (i) UNISDR and WMO's joint programme Building resilience to disasters in the Western Balkans and Turkey; (ii) its objectives, in line with the priorities set by the Hyogo Framework for Action 2005-2015 - Building resilience of

Según un estudio, en el occidente del Bolivia existen al menos 200 zonas donde se pueden presentar deslizamientos, derrumbes, mazamorras y ocasionalmente actividades sísmicas y volcánicas. En el oriente, el mayor peligro deviene de las inundaciones, que estacionalmente afectan a cerca de 2.000 lugares...

This document identifies all areas prone to floods and landslides in Rwanda for effective prevention, mitigation and preparedness planning mechanisms. It is intended to: (i) identify and map all areas prone to floods and landslides; (ii) increase

The report contains two recommendations aimed at improving the Hazard Mitigation Planning programme, which was designed to encourage state, tribal, and local jurisdictions to (i) identify the natural hazards that affect them and (ii) implement projects

Pupils at Outspan Primary School in Bwaise, a poor, flood-prone neighbourhood in Kampala, Uganda, are learning how to collect meteorological data – and, along the way, something about how climate change increasingly will affect their lives...

This publication is the final report of the High-level symposium on disaster risk reduction (DDR), which had three objectives: (i) to raise awareness among key decision-makers of Nepal’s vulnerability to a catastrophic earthquake; (ii) to demonstrate the

Southasiadisasters.net issue no. 85, June 2012:

This issue presents articles covering different aspects of community-managed approach in disaster risk reduction context. Practitioners have shared learning from project implementation with disaster affected

As FEMA works to update the new flood maps, the agency is working closely with its federal, state and local partners to help these two coastal counties better understand the current flood risk so that action can be taken to reduce that risk...