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Geneva (United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction) - Children can and should play a crucial role in disaster risk reduction, a panel of children from disaster-prone regions told the Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction this afternoon.
Children from Ethiopia, Japan, Viet…
GENEVA, 2 March 2012 - UNICEF'S flagship report, The State of the World's Children 2012: Children In An Urban World, urges governments to put children at the heart of urban planning and finds that for millions of children urban poverty is intensified by exposure to cyclones, floods, mudslides, earthquakes and other disasters.
Nearly eight million child…
Le partenariat franco-marocain
Les universités Paul Valéry - Montpellier 3 et Chouaib Doukkali d’El Jadida développent depuis plusieurs années une coopération scientifique et pédagogique dans le champ des géosciences des risques (projets ANR, Actions intégrées, Co-tutelles de thèse, voyages d’étude et échanges universitaires).
Un « Géorisque 2012 » au…
This study considers adequate infrastructure in the four key sectors of transport, telecommunications, energy and water. It also addresses minimization of damage inflicted by natural hazards such as floods, earthquakes, storms, and tsunamis through physical infrastructure, including early warning systems, which can make a major contribution both to prep…
ISDR Thematic Platform for Knowledge and Education 2012:
This desk review revisits existing reports about all aspects of school safety, gathered from 81 countries, and refers to the key advocacy and guidance documents for school safety of the past 7 years to develop an analysis that reflects the best practices in achieving the goals of comprehensive sc…
This document presents a project which aims at improving the knowledge of the distribution of building type for 18 countries where more detailed information, than that previously gathered, became available. Secondly, the project attempts to solve the enumerating problem of population living and working int he different types of buildings identified in t…
GENEVA, 18 September 2019 – The Secretary-General’s Special Representative for Disaster Risk Reduction, Mami Mizutori, today called for greater ambition in the construction industry to ensure that key infrastructure is resilient to the impacts of extreme weather events which have displaced seven million people already this year.
Ms. Mizutori said: “The…
'We must shift the focus of humanitarian aid from immediate relief and response to risk reduction and preparedness' says Eric Solheim, Norwegian Minister of the Environment and International Development in an editorial for the Bangkok Post. 'Preparedness saves lives and protects physical assets'.
Too many countries are playing Russian roulette when it comes to seismic risk, writes Claire Berlinski, a City Journal contributing editor living in Istanbul in an op-ed for the LA Times. She challenges us to 'truthfully' ask why cities are at risk in the first place.
Workshop report, Lisbon, Portugal, 26–29 October 2009:
This document reports on the programme Reduction of Earthquake Losses in the Extended (formerly Eastern) Mediterranean Region (RELEMR), which responds to the need of mobilizing scientific knowledge and technological know-how to assess earthquake hazards in the Extended Mediterranean Region (EMR) a…
A fully illustrated book Real Risk offers perspectives, case studies and analysis on disaster risk reduction and mitigation in the light of major natural disasters that have occurred since the publication of Know Risk in early 2005. It brings together the knowledge and experiences of public and private organisations working toward disaster preparedness…
By Ashna Mathema and Alanna Simpson
The social, political, and economic transition of countries across Eastern Europe, the Caucasus, and Central Asia over the last three decades has been a long and arduous process, and many challenges remain. Among them, an imminent concern is the seismic threat faced by certain housing typologies that are be…
GENEVA, 18 August 2015 – UNISDR has added new momentum to the implementation of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction, a 15-year international plan to curb deaths and economic damage caused by natural and man-made hazards.
The 'Words into Action' process, launched today, will gather experts from around the globe to shape by the end of 2016 a…
GENEVA, 5 October 2012 - On 13 October, the International Day for Disaster Reduction (IDDR) will be an occasion to pay tribute to millions of girls and women around the world who are on the frontline making their communities and societies resilient to the impacts of disasters and the effects of climate change.
Driven by the theme Women and Girls: the […
This assessment report summarizes the effectiveness of SDC disaster risk reduction (DRR) commitments in 2010. The assessment provides information about the resources invested by Switzerland for the reduction of risks from natural hazards, the areas in which these investments were made, and the results that have been achieved aligned with the Hyogo Frame…