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Displaying 15 of about 111 resultsThe autumn 2016 issue of the Consorseguros Digital magazine explores the intersection between natural risk knowledge, its management and the management of the financial consequences of such risks from the perspective of an insurance institution. The magazine is available both in English and Spanish.
The Consorseguros Digital Magazine is a half-yearly p…
Kathmandu is the world’s most seismically at-risk urban area. As a result, beginning in November 2012, the Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery (GFDRR) and the World Bank launched the Open Cities Kathmandu Project. Through this project, university students, volunteers, and government officials were trained to digitally map their communiti…
This paper examines how “big data” can inform adaptation research and decision-making and outlines what is needed from the adaptation community to maximise this opportunity. The authors contend that careful application of big data could revolutionise the understanding of how to manage the risks of climate change.
The publication concludes that big data…
This report focuses on understanding how civil protection organisations learn from direct or indirect experiences (events) and planned learning processes (exercises). An implicit assumption of the authors was that civil protection organisations should be learning organisations that document and respond to operational, coordination, and planning iss…
This publication explores the contributions of science and technology in Asia. The first part evaluates the advancement of the science and technology in disaster risk reduction in 11 countries.
The second part of the report features 28 case studies and good practices on applying science and technology in different field of disaster risk reduction…
This publication presents the Southern California (SoCal) Disaster Risk Reduction Initiative, spearheaded by the University of South California Bedrosian Center on Governance. The cooperative set of recommendations is designed by academia and the private sector to prevent or minimize the damage and disruption caused by a major natural disaster…
The newsletter of the Disaster Risk Management Knowledge Centre (Joint Research Unit, European Commission) is issued bi-monthly and reports the main activities of the DRMKC, including the news and events published on the site. In this third newsletter (May 2016), featured content include:
Editorial, by Mr. Philippe Brunet, Director Space Policy at th…
Large magnitude earthquakes in urban environments continue to kill and injure tens to hundreds of thousands of people, inflicting lasting societal and economic disasters. The handful of Earthquake Early Warning (EEW) systems operating around the world use traditional seismic and geodetic networks that exist only in a few nations. Smartphones a…
Deliverable 3.3. Summary of the main findings of the four living labs.
This report [resents the finding of four living labs at different scales (national, interregional, and local), which have been developed in the KNOW-4-DRR project (Enabling knowledge for disaster risk reduction). they were held in central Vietnam, Spain (Lorca) and Italy (…
PLOS Currents Disasters 2016, Edition 1, doi: 10.1371/currents.dis.d073fbece328e4c39087bc086d694b5c:
This analysis provides an unprecedented level of information about human movement after a natural disaster, provided within a very short timeframe after the earthquake occurred. The patterns revealed using the method proposed in this paper are almost imp…
International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, March 2016, doi:10.1016/j.ijdrr.2016.03.003:
Following two earthquake sequences in two different regions (Christchurch, Cook Strait), this study examined earthquake risk judgments, non-fatalism and preparation in two New Zealand cities that were near to one of those sequences (Christchurch in Canterbury,…
This report presents the key insights and findings from a Comparative review of the First Aid App funded by the Global Disaster Preparedness Center (GDPC). Results are based on a combination of primary and secondary research focusing in participating countries: Czech Republic, Hong Kong, Iceland, Ireland, Israel, Malta, Mexico, Myanmar and Switzerland.…
This study provides a yearly overview of natural disasters in the Asia-Pacific region and its impacts. According to the report, 160 disasters were reported in the region, accounting for 47 per cent of the world’s 344 disasters. The region bore the brunt of large scale catastrophic disasters with over 16,000 fatalities, more than a two-fold increase sinc…
This study takes two measurements in Nepal, following the earthquakes in 2015 to study the degree and structure of persistence. It presents a conceptual model of severity measurement in each one of the dimensions: hazard, exposure and vulnerability. It analyses severity measures produced by UNOCHA for low-level administrative units – Village Development…
International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, Volume 14, December 2015, pp. 96-103, doi:10.1016/j.ijdrr.2015.01.012:
This paper outlines the process and outcomes of a multi-agency, multi-sector research collaboration, led by the Canterbury Earthquake Recovery Authority (CERA). It begins with an outline of both the Canterbury earthquake sequence, an…