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Displaying 15 of about 59 resultsThis booklet is a template that aims to help childcare centres to comply with national regulations, ensure that all staff has a common understanding of seismic risk reduction, and empower kindergartens to improve their preparedness through a collaborative approach.
This newsletter published by the city of Sendai shares experiences and lessons from the Great East Japan Earthquake experienced in Sendai and the Tohoku region, conveys measures for preventing and mitigating disasters by various stakeholders, and introduces the initiatives that Sendai is implementing in its efforts to become a ‘Disaster-Resilient and En…
This study analyzed the effects of earthquakes, floods and space weather on the power grid in the European Union to identify vulnerabilities and to understand how these natural hazards influence the recovery time of electric utilities.
The following recommendations related to policy, hazard mitigation and emergency management emerged from the findings…
This handbook reviews the techniques, methodologies and best practices for using geospatial information in support of decision making for disaster risk management. The focus is on specific hazards, including flood, cyclone, earthquake, landslide, volcanic activity and forest fire. While space-based information can significantly enhance disaster emergenc…
This document presents the findings of a study on the role of volunteers in response, recovery and community rebuilding following the 2015 Nepal Earthquake. It found that volunteerism served to strengthen local institutions in the disaster-affected sites, mobilize and develop the capacities of distraught communities, and increase coordina…
This document discusses how almost six years after the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake, despite the overall good recovery progress, some areas have lagged behind and 134,000 evacuees continue to live in displacement. Prolonged and protracted displacement has had profound and disproportionate impacts on the more vulnerable members of society, particular…
This report outlines the development and use of a prototype decision support tool (DST) developed to guide choices about where to invest time, effort, and resources to maximise improvements to seismic resilience. A decision support tool is a helpful device to indicate strengths, trade-offs, and cobenefits of different types of projects in environments w…
This reference manual provides in-depth knowledge on the techniques, methodologies and best practices for using geospatial information in support of decision making for disaster risk management for specific hazards. Space-based information can significantly enhance disaster emergency response and preparedness and producing and using such information is…
Seeking to gain knowledge about resilience, this case study considered a 2007–09 Red Cross preparedness project funded by the Disaster Preparedness European Community Humanitarian Office (DIPECHO). The project was implemented around the Nevado del Huila volcano in Colombia, in a largely rural area with a predominantly indigenous population.
The finding…
Sendai City issues a Sendai DRR Newsletter to share experiences and lessons from the Great East Japan Earthquake experienced in Sendai and the Tohoku region, convey measures for preventing and mitigating disasters taken by various stakeholders, and introduce the initiatives that Sendai is implementing in its efforts to become a ‘Disaster-Resilient and E…
This study finds that frequency of previous disasters and emergency period plays a huge role in disaster management, especially in government commitment, and risk management in general. Disasters with shorter emergency period tend to be better at task management from response, recovery and mitigation; while in longer emergency period the three may overl…
For a decade, seismologists have been able to generate fast, reliable estimates of the number of people likely to have been killed in an earthquake, to within a factor of two or three1. But these valuable tools are still not being used to save lives. Knowing whether 10 or 10,000 people might have died tells governments how much effort they should direct…
This paper examines how to maximise the benefits arising from, and overcome the barriers to, the implementation of a multihazard and multi-risk assessment approach within current risk management regimes. Working at two test sites, one in Naples and one in Guadeloupe, the research team engaged in a continuous dialogue with local autho…
This brochure offers a succinct look at UNDP’s key contributions to Nepal’s recovery and the efforts to Build Back Better and Stronger over the past two years.
UNDP has been working closely with the Government of Nepal and other development partners, as well as communities, to extend support to affected people in the worst-hit areas through its recover…
ThinkHazard! is a new, open source resource pioneered by the Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery (GFDRR), capable of analyzing national and local hazard data. It is available for all 196 countries across 8 different natural hazards.
The methodology report communicates:
The methods used to communicate technical hazard data as simpler…