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Displaying 45 of about 93 resultsThis issue reports on the general results and improvements achieved during the past months of the Mitigate and Assess risk from Volcanic Impact on Terrain and human Activities (MIA VITA) project, at Mount Cameroon and Fogo area. MIA-VITA european project addresses the multidisciplinary aspects of volcanic threat assessment and management in the Internat…
This report presents the institutional and legal framework for disaster risk reduction in Nigeria, and describes its common disaster risks and natural hazards, such as storm, wild fire, flood, drought, land slide, earthquake and volcano. It outlines the strategies, plans, projects and activities related to disaster prevention and risk management.
The r…
Villagers living near Ol Doinyo Lengai Volcano in Tanzania could use volcano risk reduction techniques as a primary tool to keep them safe from future explosive eruptions, scientists recommend after responding to a request from the government of Tanzania for a hazard and risk assessment of the volcano.
Examples include evacuating to sturdy buildings d…
2009 Sasakawa award call for nominations now open
Nominations are now open for the 2009 Sasakawa Award for Disaster Reduction. Nominees should be individuals and institutions from around the world who have contributed to building the resilience of nations and communities to natural hazards through innovative practices and outstanding initiatives. Nomin…
This second newsletter reports on the general results and improvements achieved during the first two years of the MIA VITA project, which addresses the multidisciplinary aspects of volcanic threat assessment and management in the International Cooperation Partner Countries (ICPCs) and Europe, from prevention to crisis management and recovery. It also co…
Goma - Perched on a hillside, the volcano observatory in Goma, capital of North Kivu province in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), commands a great view of nearby Nyiragongo mountain.
"Goma faces the highest risk any city in the world could face," said Dario Tedesco, coordinator, project for the prevention and analysis of volcanic hazards in…
NATO science series IV: Earth and environmental sciences, vol. 11
Proceedings of the NATO advanced research workshop, held in Budapest, Hungary, 22-25 April 2001
Geographical Information Systems (GIS) have developed rapidly in recent years and now provide powerful tools for the capture, manipulation, integration, interrogation, modeling, an…
This newsletter aims highlights the activities and outputs of a project designed to address the multidisciplinary aspects of volcanic threat assessment and management in the International Cooperation Partner Countries (ICPCs) and Europe, from prevention to crisis management and recovery. It aims to develop useful products not only for the participating…
This document sets up the objective of the environment theme of the European Commission specific programme for 'Cooperation', as well as its context and content regarding 'Climate change, pollution and risks', which encompasses the sub-activity related to natural hazards in the following areas: (i) hazard assessment, triggering factors and forecasting:…
By David Rothery, Professor of Planetary Geosciences at The Open University
Around 60 volcanoes erupt in the average year. On any particular day, there are usually about 20 volcanoes erupting somewhere in the world. Naturally, they can’t all make headlines. But when there are human tragedies involved, we need to question the priorities of the news med…
The Nyiragongo volcano, situated northeast of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) started erupting on 22nd May at night. The fast-running lava flows and intense seismic activity threatened millions of people in this border region with Rwanda and called for the evacuation of hundreds of thousands.
UNOSAT’s rapid mapping service was activated on 2…
by Oluwole Olusegun Akiyode & Awa Mangie Achu Samba, UPEACE alumni from the programme of Environmental Security and Peace
Every region and/or state needs to develop a framework to reduce risk associated with disasters or design methodologies for preventing disaster, especially with the wave of disaster spreading worldwide from natural hazards. Thu…
Scripps scientists Steve Cande and Dave Stegman have now discovered a new force that drives plate tectonics, plumes of hot magma pushing up from Earth's deep interior, providing evidence that such mantle plume 'hot spots,' which can last for tens of millions of years and are active today at locations such as Hawaii, Iceland and the Galapagos, may work a…
Conference themes will include:
-Late Pleistocene-Holocene climate variability
-Quaternary rainfall variability and human-environment interactions/adaptations in East Africa
-Habitat and paleo-environmental reconstruction of pre-historic sites (paleobotany, isotopes, fauna, sedimentology)
-The Quaternary fossil and archaeological record of eastern Afri…
The PDNA of the 2014 Pico do Fogo volcanic eruption aims at providing the country of Cabo Verde with an assessment based on an internationally accepted methodology for resource and partnership mobilization in order to effectively recover and reconstruct after a disaster event. It is the result of efforts made by the Government of Cabo Verde and its inte…