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Displaying 45 of about 753 resultsThe paper outlines the road to a 1.5 billion, 15 year commitment by the government of British Columbia to school seismic safety. Over the course of a concerted one and a half year public education, media and lobbying campaign, school seismic safety has come to grip the collective social conscience and is becoming a focal point for promoting broader miti…
This practical guide demonstrates how buildings and community spaces can be constructed to increase their resilience to climate change, especially in developing countries where structures are largely self-built. The publication provides an overview of the fundamental types of interventions at the building scale, including the use of nature-based solutio…
A pocket guide, showing pictorial representation about earthquake resistant buildings.
The Guidance Notes on Safer School Construction present a framework of guiding principles and general steps to develop a context-specific plan to address this critical gap to reaching EFA and the MDGs through the disaster resilient construction and retrofitting of school buildings. The guidance notes consist of four components:
1. General information a…
Illustrated information sheet showing sites to favor and to avoid when rebuilding following an earthquake.
This guide first lays out the relevant building codes in force in Colombia for small and medium scale construction projects. Subsequent sections discuss factors affecting earthquake vulnerability of masonry structures and mitigation strategies, factors in earthquake resistant design including geo-engineering, structural design, construction materials, a…
The most critical input data for the calculation of the earthquake force on a structure are the spectral accelerations Ss and S1 which are obtained from maps. For building codes before 2012, these values are uniform hazard – all locations have the same probability of being exceeded. However, the codes since 2012 require Ss and S1 that are uniform risk –…
L’urbanisation continue de transformer en profondeur la société marocaine et son économie. Aujourd’hui, 60% des Marocains résident déjà dans les zones urbaines, contre seulement 35% en 1970. En raison de la poursuite de l’exode rural et de l’étalement urbain, le Maroc continue son urbanisation à un rythme plus élevé que celui de sa croissance démographi…
The preparation of this Local Progress Report has been undertaken within the framework of the biennial 2011-2013 Hyogo Framework for Action (HFA) Monitoring and Progress Review process, facilitated by UNISDR and the ISDR partnership.The progress report mainly assesses the trans-boundary issues and the status and progress in the implementation of disast…
The preparation of this National Progress Report has been undertaken within the framework of the biennial 2011-13 HFA Monitoring and Progress Review process, facilitated by UNISDR and ISDR System partners.
The progress report assesses current national strategic priorities with regard to the implementation of disaster risk reduction actions, and establi…
Previous Bushfire and Natural Hazard CRC (BNH CRC) reports have presented the fragility curves for reinforced concrete buildings that are supported by reinforced concrete walls and moment resisting frames, and the fragility curves for this type of buildings with four retrofitting options. This study presents the vulnerability curves for these buildings…
This action plan recommends steps which are required to make sure homes and businesses are more resilient. This includes undertaking research to better understand how properties can benefit from flood resilience measures. It recognises that property owners need to know where to get good advice.
Flooding is devastating for those affected – from the init…
This document includes different session of Peer to Peer education for youth and children on disaster risk reduction (DRR). The flip chart includes session on child club, disaster and its impact, life saving skills, risk assessment and reduction plan and characteristics of resilient schools. Mercy Corps with the implementing partner Nepal Red Cross volu…
This book is a tale of a girl who must save her little brother. Its different chapters feature a lesson: the Earth's movements, earthquakes and their impact, tsunamis, as illustrated by the case of Japan, volcanoes with a definition of the various types of lava and their positive aspects, submarine; coastal volcanoes, the atmosphere, the El Niño phenome…
This paper presents spatiotemporal analysis of a global dataset of fatal non-seismic landslides, covering the period from January 2004 to December 2016. The data show that in total 55997 people were killed in 4862 distinct landslide events. The spatial distribution of landslides is heterogeneous, with Asia representing the dominant geographical area. Th…