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Displaying 15 of about 295 resultsSociety’s dependence on cloud computing has grown rapidly as the COVID-19 pandemic accelerated the digital transformation. Although cybersecurity incidents dominate discussions about risk, residual risks remain. Such risks might stem from natural disasters or operational issues. This paper takes a broad perspective to identify the potential for residual…
Working together in Europe and the Mediterranean for the prevention of disasters, preparedness and response:
The objective of this plan is to provide a political and technical instrument containing priorities and guidelines for the action of the European and Mediterranean Major Hazards Agreement (EUR-OPA) for the next five years, improving its effectiv…
These three sectoral reports were produced to complete the Malaysian National slope master plan 2009-2023 with the aim of formulating a detailed, comprehensive and effective framework of policies, strategies and action plans to reduce risks from landslides on slopes nationwide. The plan included activities at the national, state and local levels in both…
The 2018 World Disasters Report asks challenging questions of affected states, admittedly overburdened donors, and local and international humanitarian organizations. It includes a strong call for more, for better and for more equitable, funding and action to meet the rising needs. It also calls for a more conscious and transparent approach to ensuring…
This study provides evidence that lowering the cost of accessing flood risk information increases public understanding of the risk of flood events. It exploits a pair of events to generate this conclusion: in July 2008, the Brisbane City Council released property level flood risk reports online, and, in 2011, Brisbane suffered a flood event.…
This annual Statement on the State of the Global Climate provides authoritative scientific information about the global climate and significant weather and climate events occurring around the world.
Extreme weather claimed lives and destroyed livelihoods in many countries in 2017. Fuelled by warm sea-surface temperatures, the North Atlantic h…
The wildfire risk landscape in Canada has changed rapidly. Each year between 2000 and 2014, an average of 13 000 Canadians were forced to evacuate their homes due to wildfires – more than double the figure in the 1980s. Evacuations skyrocketed in 2016 and 2017.
The number of people living in wildland-urban interface areas in Canada that are prone to wi…
Vegetation fires affect human infrastructures, ecosystems, global vegetation distribution, and atmospheric composition. However, the climatic, environmental, and socioeconomic factors that control global fire activity in vegetation are only poorly understood, and in various complexities and formulations are represented in global process-oriented vegetat…
In this report we provide a framework for assessing cross-boundary wildfire exposure and a case study application in the western U.S. The case study provides detailed mapping and tabular decision support materials for prioritizing fuel management investments aimed at reducing wildfire exposure to communities located proximal to national forests. The wor…
Existing frameworks lack focus on the actual implementation of community-based early warning systems (CBEWS), and they do not describe how experts can transform a top-down early warning system into a CBEWS. Hence, to support the establishment of a CBEWS for deep-seated landslides, this study aimed to assess the capacities and vulnerabilities of fiv…
The preparation of this Local Progress Report has been undertaken within the framework of the biennial 2011-2013 Hyogo Framework for Action (HFA) Monitoring and Progress Review process, facilitated by UNISDR and the ISDR partnership.The progress report mainly assesses the trans-boundary issues and the status and progress in the implementation of disast…
This project has studied the dynamics, predictability, and processes of severe weather, including fire weather, with the purpose of understanding phenomena with severe impact, improving forecasts of severe weather, and better depicting forecast uncertainty in these events. These goals help facilitate better risk management, improve user preparation, re…
The term ‘anticipatory action’ refers to actions triggered before a crisis in order to mitigate the worst effects, or even avoid a crisis altogether. Decisions on how to protect livelihoods continue to be taken when a crisis is already happening and delays in mobilising funds to respond are commonplace. This working paper argues that the potential benef…
Extreme precipitation and runoff events, which often impact natural and social systems more than mean changes, generally occur over regional scales. Future climate projections can be used to estimate how the hydrologic cycle may change, but the coarse resolution of global climate models (GCMs) (>1°) makes it difficult to evaluate regional changes, su…
Despite humanitarian information being more available than ever, confusion persists as to what the information means, how to analyze it and turn it into actionable evidence, and how to ensure that evidence-based actions are actually undertaken on a timely basis. The key points of confusion and issues include:
The difference between current status i…