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Displaying 15 of about 111 resultsThe Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction highlights children as among the most vulnerable groups who must be empowered to get ready for natural hazards and play a vital role in preventing and reducing risk.This child-friendly booklet is for kids who are 6-12 years old to generate Blizzard awareness among children through animated characters and…
This paper evaluates the effectiveness of the current alerting systems for hot and cold weather used in England to notify the health and social care sector of upcoming extreme weather events. It considers the views of stakeholders on the current system and explore their perspectives on the proposal to move towards an impact-based system.
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This exploratory investigation provides a new empirical and global perspective on the psychological toll of Extreme Weather Events (EWEs) by exclusively focusing on psychological morbidity among individuals exposed to such events. EWEs impose a substantial health and socio-economic burden on exposed populations. Projected impacts on public health,…
This study provides an overview of subseasonal predictability for case studies of some of the most prominent extreme events across the globe using the ECMWF S2S prediction system: heatwaves, cold spells, heavy precipitation events, and tropical and extratropical cyclones. Extreme weather events have devastating impacts on human health, economic activiti…
This manual is the first concrete step in education designed for the entire population, and was created in order to enable citizens to easily access basic information useful for behavior in emergency situations. It is simple and provides basic guidelines and rules of conduct in any type of danger. It lists numerous examples of conduct in emergency situa…
This colouring book is designed for adults and children to work on together. Children can learn about fire, earthquakes, floods, tornadoes and other disasters, as well as how to protect themselves - all while colouring. It is designed in section that have to be worked together by parents and children to make sure they understand the concepts and learn i…
Quanta Technology's objectives in performing this analysis were to perform a review of the emergency operations plans submitted by generating entities in Texas, identify best practices for generating entities regarding weatherization practices and to analyze the robustness of the Texas grid to deliver power under projected peak season conditions. Furthe…
This report describes what happened during the polar vortex and why some of the conditions occurred, and it presents lessons learned and recommendations for future actions. In early January of 2014, the Midwest, South Central, and East Coast regions of North America experienced a weather condition known as a polar vortex, where extreme cold weather cond…
This report shows that a strong and persistent increase in heatwaves and a reduction in extreme cold spells all over Europe. With unmitigated climate change, a current 50-year heatwave may occur almost every year in southern Europe, whereas in other regions of Europe such events may happen every 3 to 5 years. Cold waves, on the other hand, tend to disap…
The goal of the research is to understand and reveal the impact of Dzud on Preschool, Primary and Secondary education in order to provide short- and long-term recommendations for education stakeholders in Mongolia. The research methods used include three interrelated components:
1. Case study research in 10 schools (including 6 that were “Extremely Aff…
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This report, based on a comprehensive collection of scientific data from the last 20 years, provides a rallying call for Europe’s policy makers to come together to devise common strategies to help mitigate the physical, human and economic costs of the rising number of extreme weather events in Europe, such as extreme heat and co…
This document presents the Working Group I (WGI) contribution to the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report (AR5). It provides a comprehensive assessment of the physical science basis of climate change in 14 chapters, supported by a number of annexes and supplementary material. The document considers new evidence of climate change based on many independent scient…
The final report of the ESPON 1.3.1 Hazards project shows the spatial patterns of natural and technological hazards in Europe as an overview on all NUTS3 areas and identifies possible impacts of climate change on selected natural hazards. The approach of the project was to use existing results of hazard research and to combine those in such a way, that…
Cities and the communities who live in them are significantly impacted by climate shifts in both means and extremes. These are already affecting the New York metropolitan region and will increasingly do so in the coming decades. This New York City Panel on Climate Change 2019 Report (NPCC3) provides co‐generated tools and methods for implementing r…
Countries most affected in the period of 1990-2008: Bangladesh, Myanmar and Honduras have been identified to be the most affected. They are followed by Viet Nam and Nicaragua, Haiti and India The map shows the ten most affected countries (Down 10), with their average ranking (CRI score) and the specific results in the four indicators analysed.
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