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Displaying 15 of about 387 resultsThis Natural Disaster Risk Reduction Educational Kit (NDRR) in Arabic has been developed with the view to enhancing the coping capabilities of disaster prone communities in the Arab States region as well as the dissemination of the technical knowledge in natural disaster reduction to build the capacities of educational institutions, students, and teache…
This booklet was elaborated as "questions & answers" between a volcanologist and a volcano. It teaches children what a volcano is, the different types of volcanoes, and their level of risk. Then prevention is featured as a game, and instructions follow to be applied in emergency situations. This booklet includes several notes for parents and teacher…
This case study follows this collaboration from initial discussions and workshops, through to the use of SCOPE in various disaster responses in the Philippines, and to WFP’s local government capacity strengthening and its ongoing role helping the Government develop its own beneficiary management system. Providing food and cash assistance to populations…
El Volcán Sangay es uno de los volcanes más activos del país y los primeros reportes de sus erupciones datan del año 1628. Es importante conocer los posibles impactos de la actividad volcánica en nuestras comunidades. Así, la caída de ceniza es el principal fenómeno de las erupciones del volcán Sangay que afecta a las comunidades de los cantones de Guam…
Esta guía ayuda al proceso de formación con un lenguaje adecuado a las y los participantes de comunidades del Ecuador, a fin de fortalecer sus conocimientos generales sobre el tema y contar con un equipo de personas voluntarias comprometidas con el tema en diversas localidades del país. Para ello es fundamental que el proceso de formación sea muy horizo…
Benthic foraminifera from the South China Sea were studied to assess mass mortality and to monitor the composition and recovery of the benthic communities following the 1991 Mt Pinatubo ashfall. Surface distribution data from monitoring stations in the eastern South China Sea that were occupied during four cruises between spring 1994 and summer 1998 dis…
The June 1991 eruption of Mount Pinatubo, Philippines, was the second largest of the 20th century, emplacing 5--6 km 3 of pyroclastic-flow material and creating record high sediment yields on rivers draining the volcano. This thesis explores landscape response to and recovery from sediment loading in the 1991 eruption from the drainage basin scale to mo…
This paper presents an innovative method of estimating the relative risk of buildings exposed to seismic and tsunami hazards in volcanic islands is applied to Stromboli (Italy), a well-known stratovolcano affected by moderate earthquakes and mass-flow-induced tsunamis. The method uses a pre-existing quali-quantitative analysis to assess the relative ris…
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 guidebook for preparatory school teachedrs is composed of several subjects, with suggestions of activities around "The earth on the outside", "The interior of the earth", "earthquakes and volcanoes", "tsunamis" and "hazards prevention".
This textbook for B.A. students is to give them an approach of the natural resources and heritage of El Salvador.It covers fields such as: geology, mineralogy, paleontology, soils, hydrology, climate, flora, earth invertebrates, vertebrates. Describes phenomena like volcanic eruptions and earthquakes, but no mention of disaster reduction.
For primary school children, featuring Stan the dog and five children - Dan, Ana, Frankie, Matt and Beth - who model what to do in an emergency, around the 4 "Rs" of emergency management (reduction, readiness, response, recovery). This resource has three components, each of which can be used independently or in conjunction with each other: a guide for t…
Convincing individuals to embark on activities that would reduce their vulnerability to natural hazards is difficult, especially in communities that have not recently experienced the impact of natural hazards. This research investigated risk knowledge and interpretation in the South African community in Auckland.
The research confirmed the subjectivity…
In this study, the authors compared several climate model simulations and found that El Niño appeared in the year following a volcanic eruption in most models, with a significant drop in precipitation around the global monsoon region. In particular, the strength of El Niño was different for each simulation, and the stronger the El Niño, the more pronoun…