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Displaying 15 of about 35 resultsIn recent weeks, stay-home COVID-19 mandates have pushed crowds of people to work from home, often for the first time. Workers have turned to communication platforms such as Zoom, Webex, Hangouts and Skype, as well as simpler ones like email and file sharing.
Training and experience have prepared established online professionals for cyber-attacks. But…
When was the last time you used a map? To locate somewhere on campus, in an airport, or perhaps during fieldwork? Maps are something we often take for granted. While it can be frustrating, we may not even notice when maps do not communicate their message effectively. For most of us, this might be inconvenient at worst. However, when maps are used to con…
A DFID-funded consortium research programme asked crisis survivors what we could do better in the design and delivery of humanitarian response interventions to leave disaster-affected communities more resilient to future shocks.
At the Global Platform, we launched a research report by King’s College London and Christian Aid in consortium with Action Ai…
The Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030 was agreed in 2015. Since then the global disaster risk reduction community has been working to implement the framework using the now UN General Assembly adopted global targets and indicators building on the success of Sendai’s predecessor, the Hyogo Framework.
Recognising that health res…
Droughts are complicated, often more human-caused than precipitation-caused (Wilhite and Glantz, 1985). Nonetheless, precipitation and water certainly have a role to play, by definition.
In discussions of the ongoing California drought, much of the emphasis is on industrial and agricultural water use. A few commentators have the knee-jerk reaction that…
For the first time in disaster risk reduction, the new global blueprint for reducing disaster risks – the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction, adopted numerical targets and indicators for countries to achieve by 2030.
It is therefore important to understand the characteristics of the targets of the Sendai Framework. Are they just aspirational,…
Today Bangladesh stands at a vital crossroads in its development path. Having averaged a 6 percent economic growth in the past decade, the country attained lower-middle income country status in 2015 and achieved five out of eight Millennium Development Goals by the same year. The number of now widely adopted practices of development, which were first te…
Effective risk assessment and management are essential for mitigating the impacts of hazards and building resilient communities. A new open-source tool, RiskChanges, can help inform decision-making and guide resource allocation.In the immediate aftermath of the September 2023 Derna flood disaster in Libya, a number of available tools allowed rapid asses…
To better understand the implementation of a micro-scale urban heat island risk assessment, researchers conducted a study using Turin as a subject – the first time that such an in-depth methodology is applied in any Italian city. Extreme weather conditions – including heat waves, and the urban heat island (UHI) phenomenon– are among the predominant…
Impacts from natural hazards, climate change and other human-generated shocks do not occur in isolation.Risks from these types of events – and our responses to them – exhibit complex characteristics that are felt across sectors and national borders. The effects of one impact can trigger another impact, sometimes in a place that is far from the original…
Co-authored by Tuga Alaskary
When making economic decisions, planning new infrastructure or developing business plans, climate and disaster risks can have a negative impact on all values created. To safeguard investments, risk management must rest on a comprehensive understanding of risk, drawing on risk data and risk modeling.
Risk models quantify ri…
In recent years, the use of large scale seismic risk assessment has become increasingly popular to evaluate the fragility of a specific region to an earthquake event, through the convolution of hazard, exposure and vulnerability. These studies have provided quantitative evidence that regions with a significant percentage of non-seismically designed buil…
The media, and even scientific publications, continue to be packed with rhetoric that low-lying islands will sink, drown, or disappear due the seas rising under climate change. One inevitable consequence, we are told, will be hordes of climate refugees fleeing their abandoned homes to descend on affluent locations.
The science suggests otherwise. Summa…
The Group on Earth Observations (GEO) coordinates Earth observations for a changing planet characterized by extreme weather events such as droughts, floods, and coastal storms and the impacts those events have on communities with increasing numbers of people vulnerable to the elements due to poor living conditions. Drought-induced wildfires that threate…
At the Met Office we are aware, on a daily basis, of the impacts that weather and climate can have both locally and globally. It is hard to miss, given our role at the forefront of weather and climate science and services.
There is now increasing recognition of the vulnerability of certain regions of the globe to weather and climate variability. The…