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Displaying 8 of about 8 resultsThe volunteers enable residents to identify risks where they live – themselves – and use that knowledge to prevent future disasters.
Christina Rosario de Oliveira is one of a dozen volunteers that monitor rainfall and river levels in Itaipava, a mountainous region of Rio de Janeiro state, Brazil. Affectionately called ‘the stone that cries’, the valley…
In 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…
How social media and crowdsourcing can help build disaster resilience.“I welcome the publication of this report and thank the research team behind the LINKS project for producing it. This is a timely report that points towards innovative ideas to put people at the heart of resilience building.” – Mami Mizutori, Special Representative of the UN Secr…
Disasters often expose society's most profound vulnerabilities. While efforts to mitigate these challenges are ongoing, the incorporation of artificial intelligence (AI) into disaster risk reduction (DRR) presents both opportunities and threats.Central to this discussion is a crucial question: How do we ensure AI's application in disaster management nei…
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…
This What If…? is the first publication of an exploratory series released throughout the week of this years’ International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction which takes place on 13 October 2022 under the theme of “early warning and early action for all”. Building upon the work of the Regional Bureau for Asia Pacific Horizon Scanning initiative, the series…
Dr. Nuraini Rahma Hanifa is the 2021 winner of the WIN DRR Leadership Award for her work as a Rising Star in the field of disaster risk reduction. She works with the Research Center for Geotechnology, Research Organization of Earth Sciences, National Research and Innovation Agency (BRIN), previously known as Indonesia Institute of Sciences (LIPI). Rahma…
While there has been much research on how to handle mass evacuations, new developments could ease the rapid exit of large groups of people from public spaces.
This article offers an overview of smart evacuation management systems – which make use of soft computing techniques – as a component of disaster risk reduction (DRR) strategies, including crowd…