Find here the latest additions to the PreventionWeb knowledge base. New content is monitored and added on a daily basis. Filter your search results by year, content type, location, theme and hazard.
This compendium of multi-hazard early warning cooperation identifies county-specific challenges and note good practices cooperation arrangements to strengthen forecasting capabilities, early warning coverage, and systems to act on them.
United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific
This study aims to review and disseminate the results of a pilot project for the development of competencies of Kyrgyzstan officials and specialists in the field of monitoring drought events achieved in 2018-2022.
United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific
To mark the one-year anniversary of its Build Back Better scheme, Flood Re is launching a consumer-focused campaign aimed at promoting the take-up of prevention measures to reduce damage and loss caused by flooding.
This paper sets out a framework to document women's roles in building adaptive capacity and resilience to floods in rural Bangladesh, using testimony evidence from 20 focus group discussions in a highly flood-prone area.
International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction (Elsevier)
In this study, a novel approach for the combined assessment of landslide, flood, and earthquake hazard susceptibility was proposed and evaluated in a region in the Elazig Province of Türkiye, which is tectonically active and vulnerable to multi-hazards.
The "Earthquake Risk Reduction and Prevention Planning Project" was launched with the joint intervention of Bursa Metropolitan Municipality and the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA).
It is important for companies to have their ‘Business Continuity Planning Procedures’ in place, in the event the country experiences a major earthquake, advises the Office of Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Management (ODPEM).
Beijing will incorporate earthquake warning systems in major infrastructure and crowded places to minimize potential damage and casualties, according to the city's emergency management bureau.
