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Displaying 15 of about 27 resultsThe 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami that struck most of coastal cities in Aceh has motivated a numerous changes in the world of disaster risk reduction including to the policies and regulations at local level in Aceh, Indonesia.
This paper is aimed at elaborating the changes of policies and regulations in Aceh captured and monitored during 12-year of the tsu…
Indonesia is located at the meeting point of three tectonic plates and therefore is threatened by tectonic hazards like Earthquakes, Tsunamis and Volcanic Eruptions. The material explains and visualises the earth's structure, tectonic and our relation to geological hazards in a simple manner, that is suitable for school children.
This issue of Southasiadisasters.net is titled, 'First SFDRR Aligned National Disaster Management Plan'. In June 2016, India launched its first National Disaster Management Plan (NDMP) with the aim of improving the country's resilience to disasters and reducing the loss of lives and assets. This issue highlights the importance of the NDMP and…
This publication is a synthesis of lessons from more than a decade of Concern Worldwide’s disaster risk reduction (DRR) programming in coastal geographic contexts. Based on research in Port au Prince, Haiti; Dhaka, Bangladesh; Nairobi, Kenya; and Freetown, Sierra Leone, this publication describes Concern’s approach to DRR and offers lessons and guidance…
RSIS Commentary No. 066, March 2016:
This paper looks at how effective Indonesia’s tsunami warning systems today are, identifies gaps and highlights positive aspects. A big earthquake hit the ocean floor off Southwestern Sumatra, Indonesia on 2 March 2016. Tsunami warnings were issued by the government to the whole Sumatran regions.
According to the p…
This report analyses EM-DAT data of the Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters regarding disaster mortality and vulnerability around the world. Of the 1.35 million people killed by natural hazards over the past 20 years, more than half died in earthquakes, with the remainder due to weather- and climate-related hazards. The overwhelmin…
This report gives a brief overview of the tsunami hazard component of the 2015 Global Assessment Report, involving a global hazard analysis. The work presented is the first global scale probabilistic assessment of tsunami hazard. The publication details the applied methodology and input parameters.
The results of this assessment are tsunami inundation…
This study presents a risk assessment carried out in Colombia, Belize and Spain with an open model that can be used by every government or user: the CAPRA (Comprehensive Approach to Probabilistic Risk Assessment) platform. This platform is open access, open source and has a modular architecture, and can be used free of cost.
This do…
This brief documents some of the positive as well as the negative experiences in Sri Lanka recovery process during the then years following the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami. It presents a summary of the main factors influencing recovery outcomes in Sri Lanka, including: i) the nature and extent of settlement planning; ii) the role of local institutions inc…
Working Paper Series No. 6, June 2015:
This study looks at how people and organizations - in the midst of post-disaster devastation and loss - are able to see and seize opportunities for change towards sustainability. The post-disaster recovery process from the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami devastating Aceh, Indonesia is one of the cases with mixed account…
This study researches tsunami preparedness activities undertaken in schools in the region in association with the New Zealand 'ShakeOut' exercise. In November 2015, a survey was carried out in 17 schools from several Wellington tsunami evacuation zones. The authors expect that the results of the present study will help inform school-based tsun…
International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, Volume 15, March 2016, Pages 80–93, doi:10.1016/j.ijdrr.2015.11.006:
This paper presents a new cost-effective methodology and procedure to rapidly assess the geohazard safety classification (GSC) of schools and provides useful information to local decision makers. The GSC, based on the concepts of haza…
This document presents the findings of a case study of the Chile-Japan bi-national tsunami and earthquake drill held simultaneously in Valparaiso, Chile and Hososhima, Japan. The exercise emulated an earthquake with a tsunami of 8.8 Richter scale. The mission of ONG Inclusiva was to observe the drill and carry out an assessment of the degree o…
The newsletter of the Resilience Development Initiative for July - September 2016 includes:
an announcement on a panel discussion on renewable energy in Indonesia. The panel discussion is a part of the 8th WISS conference in Bandung, Indonesia;
invited lectures on:
"Bushfire Management in Australia", by Stephen Sutton (Charles Darwin Univer…
This paper deals with breakwaters for coastal defence against tsunami and storms, the creation of habitable space and wave energy conversion into sustainable electricity.
In this document, the author proposes a dual purpose breakwater-wave energy converter (BWEC), which acts as breakwater during tsunami, which might occur once or tw…