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The government admitted to learning important lessons from Haiyan (Yolanda), during which many victims died because they were not fully informed on the strength of the incoming typhoon and the consequences of a storm surge; and a large component of preparation this year has been angled towards education...
If there is another storm that is even close to Haiyan there could be higher death tolls, there could be much worse impact because the resilience that existed previously is all down.
'We have been talking about the resilience of infrastructure, and that's very important – but if there aren't any people, it doesn't matter if the infrastructure is resilient or not. This is the foundation of resilience,' said Margareta Wahlström, chief of the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction...
'There will come a day when we can pull up maps on our iPhones that show known landslide hazards as prominently as directions to the nearest barber shop. Let’s make that day come sooner. We’ve become consumers of information; users of 'big data'. Let’s become consumers of science,' urges Dr Daniel J Miller...
The latest IPCC report detailing climate change impacts, adaptation and vulnerability predicts future food and water supply insecurities and calls for both mitigation and adaptation, reports the Guardian...
Swiss Re, a reinsurance company assessed 616 cities of the world for their risk of earthquake, hurricanes and cyclones, storm surge, river flooding and tsunami and The Guardian features the 10 riskiest cities...
"I hope that we don't need too many more Sandys or Haiyans or fires in Australia or floods in the UK to wake us up. My sense is there is already much momentum. We have 66 governments that have climate legislation...
After talks with the UK cabinet office, real-time river levels, flood maps and more could all become available as free and commercially reusable data, reports the Guardian. According to Jack Townsend of the web science centre at the University of Southampton, 'for something like flood data, openness should be a no brainer'...
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