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Disaster management may have improved after the Asian Tsunami, but economic development has brought in new risks, writes P. G. Dhar Chakrabarti for SciDevNet. With the new legal and institutional framework of disaster management as the new focus globally, he highlights that although disaster mortality has decreased, globalisation has increased hazard exposure...
An African flood forecasting system could help mitigate suffering from catastrophic floods, writes Linda Nordling for SciDevNet, in a call for political will to implement flood early warning systems with urgency, and to develop and resource national disaster plans in Africa...
Although natural disasters such as tsunamis and earthquakes often capture the attention of the media, it is landslides which cause the highest death toll in Indonesia, writes Nithin Coca for SciDevNet and the Asian Scientist. NGOs and the Indonesian Institute of Sciences say Indonesia’s response to landslides in the country needs to be improved...
Governments and international response agencies can use INFORM to help prioritise between countries on the basis of actual risk, define preparedness levels, monitor risk trends and plan forthcoming budgets, said Tom De Groeve, senior scientist at the EC Joint Research Centre...
'First, there needs to be much more support for bottom-up adaptation on the communities’ own terms but with the external support they are requesting. Second, what is needed is much better integration of adaptation into disaster risk reduction and development processes...
One of the side events on the first afternoon at the UN’s COP 20 climate summit made a case for getting to grips with the challenge of information abundance in order to accelerate progress on climate adaptation — through marshalling what the speakers called ‘climate knowledge brokers’...
'Climate information providers such as national meteorological agencies need to work directly with decision makers. They need to understand their concerns, needs, and priorities; and how they currently understand, use or ignore information, and why'...
'At present, most research on urban resilience and adaptation frames the challenge in conventional planning terms and underplays the factors driving and enabling autonomous adaptive behaviour,' according to Marcus Moench, Founder of US-based non-profit organisation ISET-International...
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