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Across the country, newer construction in flood-prone areas generated more than $9 billion in claims for structural damage on the cash-strapped flood insurance program between 2000 and 2015. Flood-management authorities say that some of those claims probably never would have been filed had proper building cont…
An effort to rehouse flood-battered residents in apartment buildings is winning converts
By Zoe Tabary
JAKARTA - Whenever floods hit her one-room shack in northern Jakarta, Irma Susanti hangs her most precious furniture – a bed and a table – from the ceiling with a rope.
"You can never be too prepared," says the resident of Muara Angke, a coasta…
One of the key areas of intervention of ACTED in Tajikistan is integrated natural resources management with a focus on climate change adaptation. Thanks to its long-term presence in the Zarafshan region, ACTED could react quickly to flooding and landslide risks last summer and implemented a START-funded anticipation project, which preserved communities…
By Susmita Dasgupta
Massive flooding from storm surges is a major threat to lives and property in low-lying coastal areas during cyclones. Recent examples of devastating cyclone-induced storm surges include Haiyan 2013 (5.2m or 17 feet), Aila 2009 (4m/13ft), Ike 2008 (4.5m-6m/15-20 feet), Nargis 2008 (more than 3m/10ft), Sidr 2007 (4m /13ft), Katrina 2…
On 21 November 2017, the 4th PPRD East 2 National Advisory Group met in Kyiv to discuss the progress of reforms in disasters risk management in Ukraine.
In 2010, the EU launched the "Programme for Prevention, Preparedness and Response to Natural and Man-made Disasters in Eastern Partnership Countries” (the PPRD East), now in its 2nd phase (2014-2…
By Jennifer Chu
As the city of Houston continues to recover and rebuild following the historic flooding unleashed by Hurricane Harvey, the region will also have to prepare for a future in which storms of Harvey’s magnitude are more likely to occur.
A new MIT study, published online this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Scie…
By Karl Braganza, Acacia Pepler, David Jones, Australian Bureau of Meteorology
As the planet warms, rainfall and weather patterns will change. As temperatures rise, the amount of water in the atmosphere will increase. Some areas will become wetter, while others, like southern Australia, will likely be drier.
One measure of atmospheric moisture is…
A recently-conducted aerial survey of the island by a team from the Department of Science and Technology (DOST) and the University of the Philippines Training Center for Applied Geodesy and Photogrammetry (UP TCAGP) is part of a program aimed at producing three-dimensional flood and hazard maps for majority of the country’s river systems.
The team arri…
Through cooperation within our flood resilience alliance, Zurich is helping to save lives in Peru. New early warning systems installed with the support of Practical Action, one of our alliance members, help protect communities around Lima from landslides and floods.
The sky is cloudy. It’s mid-afternoon in Chosica. All of a sudden, it starts to ra…
Eleven families in Kabaya Sector, Ngororero District, have been relocated from high risk zones to the model village in Kimiramba. The Hon. Mukantabana Seraphine, Minister of Disaster Management and Refugees and Mr. Lamin M. Manneh, UN Resident Coordinator, officially handed over the disaster resilient houses built under the One UN joint programme dubbed…
Hundreds of trees will be planted across the Lake District today (Friday 10 February) in the first mass tree planting event ever attempted by the National Trust in the national park.
The trees will help reduce the impacts of future flooding and restore wood pasture habitats that have been lost, National Trust rangers say.
More than 90 people will plan…
What can we learn from studying people's flood memories? And how do these memories relate to resilience?
A while ago, I had the opportunity to participate in a workshop at Northumbria University, UK, dedicated to “Concepts and Practices of Flood Management in the UK; Vietnam and the Global South”. Organised by political scientist Oliver Hensengert…
Thimphu: As COP23 international climate talks continue in Bonn, Bhutan has launched a ground-breaking US$13.9 million Global Environment Facility project aimed at enhancing the resilience of communities and protecting the country’s unique and rich biodiversity in the face of a changing climate.
The UNDP-supported 'Enhancing Sustainability and Climate R…
Ha Noi – The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) is supporting the assessment and coordination of the current emergency flood and typhoon response, and early recovery efforts in Viet Nam, which amount to USD 78,000. The organization is now actively reaching out to partners to look at how best to support the affected populations to effective…
A well-designed climate observing system could help scientists answer knotty questions about climate while delivering trillions of dollars in benefits by providing decision makers information they need to protect public health and the economy in the coming decades, according to a new paper published today.
The flip side is also true, said lead author E…