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Displaying 105 of about 173 resultsThis working paper summarises current and potential uses of earthquake science in disaster risk reduction (DRR) and resilience-building activities in Nepal. This study aims to support governments, non-governmental organisations and communities to build resilience to earthquakes and secondary hazards along the Alpine-Himalayan belt. I…
In June 2017, The Chittagong Hill Tracts, Bangladesh, experienced torrential rainfall followed by massive landslides. According to UNOCHA, 160 people were killed, and 187 were injured at the foothills, with 6,000 houses destroyed. Once a landslide starts, it is difficult to stop the damage due to its fast-onset nature. Proper pre-disaster investment for…
By Andrew J. Wight
Geospatial data provided by drones can be crucial for emergency preparedness and infrastructure planning in Nepal. Jetliners, however, can get in the way.
Usually, getting clearance for drone flights in Nepal’s Kathmandu Valley is difficult because of the presence of the busy Tribhuvan International Airport, which serviced over 7 mi…
By Laura Gil
Bangladesh, whose populous and low-level delta region is expected to be severely affected by rising sea levels, is using nuclear technology to adapt to this threat. Scientists are looking for ways to protect the country’s agriculture against flood and salinity, as well as drought and changing temperatures. With support from the IAEA and th…
By Riitta-Leena Inki
Researchers from the University of Helsinki and the University of Tübingen have come up with a new way of analysing sand in mountain rivers to determine the activity of landslides upstream, which has important implications for understanding natural hazards in mountainous regions.
Landslides occur in hilly and mountainous landscape…
By Sarah Elizabeth Antos and Luis Triveno
Machine learning algorithms are excellent at answering “yes” or “no” questions. For example, they can scan huge datasets and correctly tell us: Does this credit card transaction look fraudulent? Is there a cat in this photo?
But it’s not only the simple questions – they can also tackle nuanced and complex ques…
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The 2nd Asian Science and Technology Conference for Disaster Risk Reduction on 17-18 of April 2018 was organised by UNISDR with support from IRDR and other partners, which aims to renew the commitment to the accelerated implementation of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030 as the p…
Farmers across Africa need weather data and climate projections to put food on people’s plates. But often the data does not exist or is inaccessible. The same goes for scientists trying to model how the climate is changing, and how diseases spread, for the planet’s second-largest continent.
Only 10 out of Africa’s 54 countries…
By Alvaro Federico, Barramika-petteri Torhonen
On 12 January 2010, Haiti was struck by a force 7.0 Mw earthquake approximately 25 kilometers west of the capital of Port-au-Prince. It is estimated that over 225,000 people were killed by the earthquake, and over 1 million displaced. Ten months later, Christchurch, New Zealand, was also stru…
Most African countries have lacked good forecasting methods as weather becomes increasingly extreme
By Nellie Peyton
WASHINGTON, May 18 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A new weather forecasting system in Africa allows meteorologists to track approaching storms in real time, potentially saving lives from climate-related disasters, scientists said on Mon…
By Evan Thomas, University of Colorado Boulder
The challenge
Millions of people living in the drought-prone Horn of Africa face persistent threat from a lack of safe, reliable, and affordable water year-round. The arid regions of Somalia, Kenya, and Ethiopia are experiencing increasing frequency and severity of drought conditions. Drought emergen…
PARIS, 17 October, 2018 - A meeting to raise tsunami awareness opened with one minute’s silence yesterday in memory of the 2,000 confirmed dead and 680 officially missing in the tsunami and earthquake which struck Indonesia on September 28.
The double disaster left almost 70,000 people homeless and 11,000 injured in the Indonesian cities of P…
Bonn, 26 September 2018 – Efforts to improve collection of data on disaster losses are being stepped up by UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR).
Key to these efforts is improved understanding and use of the online Sendai Framework Monitor (SFM), launched in March, to monitor progress on implementing the global plan to reduce disast…
LUANDA, 22 April 2016 – Six southern African countries have taken a key step in their efforts to implement the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction, a 15-year global agreement to curb the impact of natural and man-made hazards, by starting a programme to harness data.
Angola, Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, United Republic of Tanzania and Zambia --…
PANAMA, 18 January, 2016 - The Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management Agency (CDEMA) has launched an awards scheme for 2016 which seeks to support national and regional efforts to reduce disaster loss and the impacts of climate change.
CDEMA includes some of the most disaster prone small island States in the world, exposed to sea-level rise, stor…