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Displaying 15 of about 85 resultsA slow-moving tropical depression caused persistent heavy rains in the Solomon Islands between April 1 and April 4, 2014. The rains caused flash flooding in Honiara, Guadalcanal, Isabel, Malaita,and Makira-Ulawa. The flooding was the worst in living memory in some locations. It caused 22 fatalities across the country, internally displaced some 10,000 pe…
Vancouver City Council has adopted a comprehensive climate change adaptation strategy to ensure that Vancouver remains a liveable and resilient city in the face of climate change.
The landmark strategy recommends nine primary actions and over 50 supporting actions that the City of Vancouver can take to incorporate climate change adaptation measures into…
This report outlines the steps government, businesses and communities are already taking to address the most severe and urgent threats of climate change, as identified by Defra last year in its Climate Change Risk Assessment. It identifies the major threats to the UK which require targeted adaptation responses across six sectors: (i) built environment,…
Southasiadisasters.net issue no. 114, July 2014:
This issue of Southasiadisasters.net focuses on the theme of urban risk and resilience. Its articles provide an overview of the best practices and interventions apropos urban resilience with special focus on Asia in the context of the HFA2 process. This document includes the following content:
(i) The i…
This document proposes a set of sustainable development goals (SDGs) for consideration and appropriate action by the General Assembly at its 68th session. It contains several targets related to disaster risk reduction in: proposed goal 1, 'End poverty in all its forms everywhere'; Proposed goal 2, 'End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutritio…
Community, environment and disaster risk management, volume 15:
Recognising ongoing processes of rapid urban transformation in many cities in developing countries, this book throws light on how urban communities in Asian cities, particularly Indian cities, experience impacts of urbanisation and climate change. Related consequences due to unprecedented…
In Spanish:
El incremento en la recurrencia de las amenazas ha venido acompañado de un aumento significativo de las vulnerabilidades, las que se han visto reflejadas en una mayor concentración de personas en las ciudades, en terrenos que no cumplen con las garantías de seguridad suficientes para su utilización con fines urbanos, además de la difícil y…
Southasiadisasters.net issue no. 113, June 2014:
This issue of Southasiadisasters.net is an attempt to deliberate on the important issues related to disaster risk reduction (DRR) in Asia. It contains articles on a variety of DRR issues ranging from Kosi floods to Tsunami rehabilitation, and from urban risks to under nutrition. The idea behind this…
This document adresses the issue of climate compatible development in the context of rapidly growing cities across the African continent, where two key features are widespread: informality and deeply entrenched inequality. As informality comes in many forms, including settlement on unplanned land without public services and bulk infrastructure; unr…
This report argues that sea level rise, coastal erosion, increased flooding, heavy rains, and more frequent large wildfires are damaging archaeological resources, historic buildings, and cultural landscapes across the United States. The paper is a selection of case studies that vividly illustrate an urgent problem of climate change threats to the United…
This case study presents a summary of investigative studies conducted for risk assessment of the city of Galle in Sri Lanka and focuses on development of simplified approach to risk assessment, planning of mitigation measures and their implementation in the aftermath of the Indian Ocean tsunami. Both detailed and simplified approaches have been adopted…
These guidelines have been developed to specifically address two key recommendations that have emerged from the Vulnerability and Capacity Assessment (VCA) review; these are to provide further guidance to National Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies on how to: (i) integrate into the existing VCA process and tools, information on the additional risks an…
This report summarizes the core discussions and outcomes of the 5th Global Forum on Urban Resilience and Adaptation to climate change. Over the past five years, the issue of urban resilience has gained prominence at local and global levels, resulting in increased activity in and support for this area. This year’s congress featured more concrete resilien…
Proposals developed for the Hyogo Framework for Action after 2015, during the panel activities carry out by t he municipalities of Canary Island in the forum 'Diálogos Internacionales: Desarrollando la resiliencia ante los desastres en las Islas Canarias'.
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Aportaciones realizadas por las autoridades locales de las Islas Canarias, para el m…
Southasiadisasters.net issue no. 117, September 2014:
This issue focuses on the important theme of the ‘Need for disaster risk reduction (DRR) sensitive heritage conservation in the Himalayas’. The Himalayan states of India are home to a lot of heritage sites and structures, which include palaces, temples (gompas), monasteries, stupas and old neighbour…