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Displaying 15 of about 18 resultsThe Greater London Authority (GLA) has commissioned Arup to carry out this study in recognition of the need for better data to inform a long-term and sustained approach to locate and target interventions in London’s built environment. Urban heat risk is an ever-growing pressure on London’s physical environment and its people, with the most vulnerable pe…
The main objective of this quarterly report is to show how the European Crisis Management Laboratory (ECML) Mapping Team at the Joint Research Centre (JRC) plays a key role in delineating all the components of disaster event phases with its daily situational awareness reports (ECHO Daily Flash and Daily Maps) and on-demand products (ECHO Situation Maps/…
Society’s dependence on cloud computing has grown rapidly as the COVID-19 pandemic accelerated the digital transformation. Although cybersecurity incidents dominate discussions about risk, residual risks remain. Such risks might stem from natural disasters or operational issues. This paper takes a broad perspective to identify the potential for residual…
This research analyzed Twitter communications about wildfires and smoke from 2022 authored by institutional public health and environmental accounts in Washington and Oregon. This study compared Tweeting patterns over time, in connection with potential wildfire smoke exposure, and evaluated communications based on whether they encouraged the adoption of…
This paper presents a comprehensive Twitter data analysis (2011-2023) to gain insights into public perceptions of heatwaves and their health-related concerns. In terms of health outcomes, the paper categorizes and analyzes a wide range of concerns during heat waves, from heat-related illnesses to mental health issues. These findings provide valuable ins…
This paper proposes a methodology for identifying, documenting, and extrapolating potential good practices in Disaster Risk Management from the literature with a procedure that consists of five steps. Making evidence-based decisions in Disaster Risk Management is crucial for practitioners. However, it remains unclear how to systematically identify and c…
The present study proposes a methodology to map the flood physical vulnerability and applies it using an index at urban parcel scale for a medium-sized town (Ponferrada, Spain). This index is based on multiple indicators fed by geographical open-source data, once they have been normalized and combined with different weights extracted from an Analytic Hi…
At 23:59 (BJT) on 18 December 2023, a 6.2-magnitude earthquake struck Jishishan County, Linxia Zhou, Gansu province, with a depth of 10 km. The earthquake resulted in the tragic loss of 113 lives, injuries to 536 individuals, and extensive damage to 155,393 houses, as reported as of 13:00 (BJT) on 22 December 2023. In response, the CBAS initiated emerge…
The network of Drought Observatories in the EU provides technical and scientific support to further drought impact data collection and analysis, and develop tailored sectoral and a regionally disaggregated drought risk assessments. These initiatives represent an urgently needed first step in the transition from a mostly hazard-based assessment of drough…
This study unveils diverse disaster risk trends and patterns, revealing variations in hazards, vulnerability, and coping capacity across African countries by utilizing the INFORM risk model data spanning from 2012 to 2022. The research identifies countries with both ascending and descending disaster risk trends, providing insights into the dynamic natur…
Outlining how adaptation and mitigation should be woven into more inclusive investment planning, the report explains why private investment should be combined with public resources to better tackle the climate and investment shortfall. It shows why a stronger understanding of climate data and risk analysis can help drive transparent and accountable clim…
This research presents unprecedented datasets of current and future projected weather files for building simulations in 15 major cities distributed across 10 climate zones worldwide. The datasets include ambient air temperature, relative humidity, atmospheric pressure, direct and diffuse solar irradiance, and wind speed at hourly resolution, which are e…
This paper uses detailed survey micro-data from six African countries to quantify disaster damages in one key sector: crop agriculture. The analysis of micro-data offers an important complementary perspective to analyses based on aggregate statistics derived from disaster inventories. Aggregate statistics are critical to the study of disaster impacts, p…
This report looks back on how INFORM has developed over that last decade and analyses some trends in crises and crisis risk over that time. It sets out INFORM’s vision for a suite of products to support decision-making that are easy to use and open to everyone. This vision involves bringing scientific rigour to the process of analysing crises and poolin…
This paper argues that the COVID-19 pandemic has exposed yet another important socio-political dynamic that can best be captured by the concept of a quandemic – a portmanteau of “quantification” and “pandemic”. The use of quantifiable metrics in policymaking and evaluation has increased throughout the last decades, and is driven by a synergetic relation…