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The Asia-Pacific region encompasses large areas of high disaster risk. Hazards affecting the region include floods, drought, typhoons and cyclones, earthquakes, volcanoes, landslides and tsunamis. The Pacific region has special risks due to the large number of small island states which are particularly vulnerable to typhoons and drought and…
Following the success of the first two conferences on Coastal Processes held in Malta in 2009 and Naples in 2011, it has been decided to reconvene the meeting in Gran Canaria.
Conference Topics
Wave modelling
Hydrodynamic modelling
Effects of climate change in coastal zones
Coastal defences
Energy recovery
Sediment transport and…
The conference motto for IDRC Davos 2008 is: Public-private partnership – key for integral risk management and climate change adaptation.
IDRC Davos 2008 will address global problems and attract participants from all over the globe. We expect more than 1300 participants from 130 countries.
The conference will take an integrated, multidisciplinary appro…
Small island developing States (SIDS) in the Pacific continue to be hit by multiple disasters that can arrive in quick succession – often with cascading impacts that transcend national boundaries. In February 2018, cyclone Gita, for example battered many small islands developing States in the South Pacific and as well as large parts of Tonga, affecting…
In some islands, Pandanus spp. and Suriana maritima (tassel plant) were severely affected due to salt-water intrusion caused by tsunami. In some places Calophyllum inophyllum (funa) located close to the beach died. Observations also indicated that some areas of mangrove forests are showing signs of degradation due to the tsunami’s deposition of sediment…
UNEP has completed an international expert mission to areas affected by the 2011 earthquake and tsunami in Japan. The visit focused on the management of post-disaster debris.
Tokyo - On the eve of the first anniversary of the worst natural disaster in Japan in a century, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) says the remarkable progress to so…
• Ishinomaki City promoted the introduction of an energy system combined with solar power generators, storage batteries, and BEMS to elementary and junior high schools within the city and in Shin-Hebita District where disaster public housings were concentrated. The city aimed to build a town that could secure the power generated by renewable energy in t…
This book was produced to mark the end of the International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction (IDNDR), a United Nations initiative to reduce the negative effects of natural disasters.
This volume communicates solutions to the problems associated with natural disasters, stimulating discussion and improvements in methods of protecting people and prop…
CAIRO, 23 November 2011 – The League of Arab States (LAS) and UNISDR move one step closer to a plan of action on disaster risk reduction for the Arab region. The action plan is expected to be endorsed at the first-ever Regional Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction in the Arab region planned for 2012.
Holding a series of consultations with disaster risk…
In Sri Lanka, the tsunami that struck on the morning of December 26, 2004 left behind widespread destruction and killed over 31,000 people, destroyed over 99,000
homes, and damaged natural ecosystems, and coastal infrastructure. Vulnerable groups, such as poor fishermen living close to the shore in simple houses and shelters, have borne the brunt of the…
The United Nations University Institute for Sustainability and Peace (UNU-ISP) would like to invite you to the upcoming Conference of the University Network for Climate and Ecosystems Change Adaptation Research (UN-CECAR), on 15 November 2011 in UNU-ISP Tokyo, Japan. It will focus on Disaster Risk Management and Sustainability, taking climate and ecosys…
On an early December morning 17 years ago, a magnitude 9.1 undersea earthquake triggered 100-feet high waves that slammed into the coast of Aceh in the northern end of Sumatra Island, Indonesia. The 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, as it became known, killed more than 230,000 people across the Indian Ocean countries, mainly in the Indonesian archipelago.
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The Indian Ocean tsunami was one of the greatest tragedies of recent history. The toll in deaths, injuries and human suffering was enormous. Whole communities were destroyed and displaced. Damage to property, infrastructure and the environment was also immense.
The World Conservation Union has carried out numerous programmes, ranging from cleaning beac…
The joint effort so far in reconstructing Aceh and Nias has been an enormous undertaking. the initial relief efforts of 2005 were followed by extensive reconstruction works that continue to date, and that have had to overcome significant obstacles both related to the sheer extent of the damage and also to the scale and speed of response. This report des…
"Japan’s nuclear industry, regulators, and government have a responsibility to explain clearly why science and technology could not minimize the risk and consequences of such an accident in a geologically vulnerable country like Japan; why unreasonably costly cleanup is being carried out in areas of low contamination, where negligible impact on public h…