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Displaying 15 of about 92 resultsFrom January to April 2015, Mozambique experienced prolonged heavy rain, which contributed to the rising of water levels in the Zambezi, Licungo and Shire River basins, exposing the population to flooding. Factors which contributed to the high level of flooding are: (i) heavy rainfall; (ii) flat terrain; (iii) high tide; and (iv) inappropriate drainage…
During the night of 13-14 June 2015, heavy rainfall over the Vere River basin led to flash floods that struck the Vake and Saburtalo neighbourhoods of Georgia’s capital, Tbilisi, as well as other areas of the city along the right bank of the river Mtkvari. The Lisi, Tsodoreti, Napetvrebi, Bevreti, Tskhaldidi, Betania and Tskhneti areas around Tbil…
Report 3: 2014-15
This report examines cyclone and storm tide sheltering arrangements across Queensland, Australia. It reviews local governments to consider whether arrangements match local risk and that vulnerable people can readily access this information. It focuses on three areas: risk, sheltering arrangements, and community engagement.
The report…
This report introduces resilience.io, a computer-based platform, an analysis and decision-support tool, that allows users to accurately model resource flows, for example, energy, food and water, so that regions can manage both their economy and critical supporting ecosystems. It is a tool that allows regions globally to assess their current development…
This guide begins by describing the complex interaction between processes of urbanisation and natural hazards that generate and intensify disaster risk in Latin America. It then provides a panorama of the evolution of urban disaster risk management in the region, including examples of key achievements towards building more resilient cities. The guide as…
This study was conducted to evaluate the main causes and damages of flood (2010) in district Charsadda. Most of the villages in Charsadda District are prone to floods during summer mainly because of torrential rainfall, melting of snow and ice, deforestation and over grazing in the catchment areas of rivers flowing across Charsadda. Overflowing the natu…
Southasiadisasters.net issue no. 135, August 2015:
“It is smart to be safe” said Mihir R. Bhatt at 6th Annual Conference of the International Society for Integrated Disaster Risk Management, IDRiM – TIFAC 2015 “Disaster Risk Reduction: Challenges and Opportunities for Sustainable Growth”. This was during the panel session on "Nepal: Beyond Disasters: B…
This publication shares the findings of the CityStrength diagnostic on Urban Resilience, carried out in Addis Ababa. It presents the most relevant and actionable information that emerged from the diagnostic process and the priority actions and investments agreed with local leaders. CityStrength is an interview-based methodology; as such, a significant p…
This manual is aimed to help households get fully prepared for an earthquake directly hitting Tokyo and other various disasters. It is tailored to the various local features of Tokyo, its urban structure, and the lifestyles of its residents, and contains easy-to-understand information on how to prepare for and respond to a disaster．This information will…
This brief addresses the emergent disaster risk landscape in India as a major threat to urban development investments and gains. Nowadays Indian cities are exposed to a new pattern of climate-related disaster risks. Floods in Srinagar in September 2014, triggered by extreme rainfall, were the deadliest to hit the valley in the last 60 years. The port ci…
This document brings together the different pieces of knowledge on climate risks. It examines the vulnerability of European cities to climate change and analyzes how climate risks are being managed.
This analysis reveals how a lack of responsibility and funding leaves the majority of European cities unprepared to deal with the worst impacts of climate…
The research presented in this report examines the urban disaster risk reduction (DRR) landscape of Dhaka. It builds on the Urban DRR Assessment Framework Report, a study which assessed the resilience of World Vision Bangladesh’s project sites in Dhaka.
This report identifies the hazards faced by slum residents in Dhaka, in the context of their particu…
This white paper explains what is required to move cities to greater smartness: the what, who and how of smart city development. It considers risk management and resilience to environmental
shocks in the context of environmental concerns. It calls for a wide collaboration between many stakeholders, including other international standardization bodies to…
This case study was conducted in 2014 to document the lessons learned from the housing recovery operation carried out in the wake of Cyclone Sidr that hit Bangladesh in 2007. The cyclone, which caused damage to over a million houses, prompted arguably the largest ever housing recovery in the country’s disaster history. In a first, housing was considered…
This study examines the effects of two megatrends – climate change and urbanization – on environmental emergencies. It considers how climate change and urbanization affect the scope and scale of emergencies. It argues that these trends are posing multiple challenges for emergency responders by overwhelming national and local-level emergency preparedness…