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Réunion finale du projet SHOCS tendant au renforcement des opérations et services hydrometeorologiques dans les pays des Caraibes.
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Les sociétés de la Caraïbe sont mieux préparées, capables de répondre à et de gérer les risques liés aux aléas météorologiques et hydrométéorologiques graves. Les sociétés sont aussi plus résistan…
The Structural Engineers Association of Alabama is pleased to announce the availability of these important customized training seminars. Recent disasters such as the tornados in Tuscaloosa, and
Joplin; floods throughout the nation; and earthquakes on both coasts, as well as in Haiti, Chile, New Zealand and Japan have displaced hundreds of thousands of p…
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The over 40 million inhabitants of the two dozen Caribbean islands are at the front line of vulnerability to natural disasters. More specifically, more so than any other region, the Caribbean is home to relatively frequent hurricanes, earthquakes, volcanic outbreaks and landslides. Moreover, anticipated increases in temperature are expe…
The Organisation of East Caribbean States (OECS) will host the second in a series of annual climate change seminars.
The seminar is to be held under the theme, 'Climate change and our coast – Exploring possibilities, finding solutions'. This coastal areatheme will be explored via presentations to be made by relevant experts in five disaggregated topics…
Theme: Natural solutions: Building resilience for a changing pacific
Momentum has been gathering around the world to find natural solutions to the issues and impacts of climate change. Ecosystem services have become increasingly recognised as a fundamental approach to combat these threats to the Pacific environment and its communities. Climate change i…
Rio+20 Side Event: One of the themes of this Rio +20 side event will be Disaster Risk Reduction.
The Office of Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Management (ODPEM) presents the 5th National Disaster Management Conference (NDMC) to be held March 6-7, 2008. In cooperation with several non-government agencies and private companies, the 2008 Conference will address two very important areas of risk management and risk reduction: slope landslides and e…
The conference will provide a moment for reflection and analysis of disaster risk reduction and disaster management in the health sector, to keep abreast of scientific innovations and improve their impact on livelihoods.
National and foreign professionals will be meeting to discuss positive experiences that have enabled the establishment and smooth fun…
Typically, the effort to address disaster risk management has been spearheaded at national level within Pacific countries by the national disaster management Offices. In light however of the need to ensure an improved effort to address disaster risk reduction, SOPAC working with other partner organisations have advocated quite extensively for the involv…
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COVID-19 has upended our way of life in unexpected ways. Therefore, it is only natural that in light of these changes, countries reconsider how they have been managing disaster risk. Specifically, the pandemic has highlighted the need for planning against a multitude of risks, includ…
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Asia-Pacific is the most disaster-prone region in the world, and increasingly, those disasters are occurring in urban settings. Cities face multiple hazards that threaten their social and economic development, these include storms, floods, heatwaves, earthquakes, and of course, pandemics.
Co-created by 11 international org…