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Displaying 30 of about 159 resultsWithin the framework of the Regional Initiative for the Assessment of the Impact of Climate Change on Water Resources and Socio-Economic Vulnerability in the Arab Region, the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA) is organizing a Regional Workshop on Regional Climate Model (RCM) Applications and Analysis, from 2 to 4 July…
Submitted in preparation for the World Conference on Disaster Reduction, 2005, Kobe, Hyogo, Japan.
The preparation of this National Progress Report has been undertaken within the framework of the biennial 2009-11 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…
Existing research on the disaster-conflict nexus is commonly too general to inform practice. A scenario-based approach that centres on comparable cases can help aid actors to learn, identify and apply best practices in their specific context.
Research from the ‘When disaster meets conflict’ programme analyses how state, non-state and humanitarian actor…
Arab Climate Resilience Initiative (ACRI) working paper:
This report aims to identify and assess some of the main vulnerable areas to sea level rise in the Arab world. A survey of a country by country case studies, based on initial national communications and second national communication as well as recent published literature is also presented. The m…
This document offers a general overview of the 'natural' sudden climate disasters status in the Arab region (with case studies from several countries under consideration), and provides linkage between disaster reduction and natural resources management, land-use planning, climate change adaptation and environmental protection.
It is intended to be used…
This report, the first report in the UN-Habitat series on the state of cities to focus on the Arab world, highlights issues of environmental and natural disasters, risk and vulnerability, within a collective picture of urban conditions and trends in each of four Arab regions - Maghreb, Mashreq, Gulf Cooperative Council (GCC) and Southern Tier. It provid…
By Mohamed ELsonpaty, Adel Aldaghbashy, Zeki Al-Droubi, and Hazem Badr
Conflict has left the door wide open for epidemics in the Middle East, letting leishmaniasis into Syria, polio back into Iraq after 14 years, and — after two violent waves — cholera to spread across Yemen once again.
Sometimes, more people die fro…
Dubai - Several Middle East countries which over the years had failed to prioritize disaster preparedness have established national databases and should now be able to estimate their level of risk and improve response, according to the UN International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (UNISDR) Secretariat.
"The region is affected by several hazards: ear…
'Arab states not only share a common language, culture and historic heritage but also a number of regional and trans-boundary risks', writes Raed Omari of The Jordan Times, referring to the recently launched 'Arab Strategy for Disaster Risk Reduction (ASDRR) 2020'. The report was released at the opening ceremony of the Third Session of the Global Platf…
Investment potential of China, India and Russia undermined by poor governance and societal resilience
According to a major new report, the BRIC countries of Brazil, Russia, India and China are no better placed to withstand shocks from major risk events than they were four years ago.
The findings of the Global Risks Atlas 2012, released by risk analysi…
Twenty three Indian Ocean rim countries* participated in an ocean-wide tsunami exercise on 12 October. The exercise was organized under the auspices of UNESCO’s Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC), which played an instrumental role in establishing the system. At the same time the new advisory service provided by the Regional Tsunami Service…
Almost seven years after the devastating tsunami of 2004, more than 20 nations* will participate on 12 October in a full-scale exercise to test the Indian Ocean Tsunami Warning and Mitigation System. This exercise, organized under the auspices of UNESCO’s Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission, will also see responsibility for the issue of advisorie…
Climate change is causing new humanitarian crises and accelerating existing ones in vulnerable communities around the world. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change warns that drastic cuts in greenhouse gas emissions are needed to prevent the world from experiencing a rise in global temperature and the catastrophic consequences that follow.
“The…
The first thing that comes to mind when we think of the desert locust is destruction. Traveling in swarms that can number in the billions, or even trillions, and spread over large swathes of land, this small insect causes catastrophic damage to pasture and to crops. A small swarm can in one day eat the same amount of food as 35,000 people or damage 100…