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Displaying 105 of about 789 resultsSpeaking Tuesday at Jamaica's launch of the global campaign - Making Cities Resilient: 'My City is Getting Ready!' - Noel Arscott, the minister of local government and community development, related the results of a recent earthquake test on critical services buildings in Jamaica, according to the Jamaica Observer.
"The finding is somewhat startling an…
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En el marco de las actividades a 10 años de la trágica inundación de 2003 en la ciudad de Santa Fe, se realizó el jueves en la Secretaría de Comunicación Social de la provincia, a cargo de Mariano Panichelli, una reunión con la representante de la Oficina de las Naciones Unidas para la Reducción del Riesgo de Desastres (UNISDR), Margarita V…
Por Yineth Pinilla
Las distintas medidas de conocimiento y reducción del riesgo de desastres han generado que las comunidades estén más atentas frente a esta temporada de lluvias y a que se disminuya la afectación en las comunidades del territorio nacional.
Frente a esto el Instituto de Hidrología, Meteorología y Estudios Ambientales -IDEAM- (como int…
'The goal should be to use federal money for prevention, not just clean-up' say David R. Conrad and Edward A. Thomas in an op-ed for the LA Times.
'Because the government makes extensive investment in infrastructure and other development before disasters, and because it also has the deepest pockets when disaster strikes, it has the ability to give comm…
Avery Fellow reports for Bloomberg BNA Energy and Climate Report that the draft US National Climate Assessment lacks information about climate change impacts on cities besides storm surge and sea-level rise, data on potential health threats related to climate change, and asserts that the report should consider steps including adaptation in urban areas.
A total of $159 million has been allocated to the Community Based Landslide Risk Management Project in the 2013/2014 Estimates of Expenditure, now before the House of Representatives.
The project seeks to reduce the risk of natural disasters in vulnerable communities in Jamaica and provide an evidence based toolkit for vulnerability reduction throughou…
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A Defesa Civil de Campinas vai promover ação de simulado de incêndio que envolverá os moradores da Vila Brandina. Um grupo de lideranças do bairro participará de dois treinamentos antes do simulado, que deve ocorrer entre o final de abril e começo de maio. A primeira dinâmica com os líderes e moradores para definir o andamento dos trabalh…
Boston - Civil engineers build rugged things designed to last for decades, like roads, bridges, culverts and water treatment plants. But a University of New Hampshire professor wants his profession to become much more flexible.
In a changing climate, civil engineer Paul Kirshen argues, facilities will have to adapt to changing conditions over their us…
Por Vicente Sandoval
Chile es un país que históricamente ha sufrido de amenazas naturales, como son las erupciones volcánicas, terremotos, deslizamientos de tierra, inundaciones y sequías, entre muchas otras, las cuales de alguna u otra forma han desencadenado los llamados desastres “naturales”.
La reciente erupción del volcán Chaitén en el 2008, q…
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The International Journal of Disaster Resilience in the Built Environment has just published a special issue entitled Making cities resilient: from awareness to implementation, which details the achievements cities participating in the Making Cities Resilient Campaign have taken to build thei…
Lanzamiento de campaña mundial en Costa Rica
Con el propósito de que los gobiernos locales adquieran el compromiso de implementar procesos e iniciativas para que sus comunidades sean más seguras y más resilientes ante los desastres, se llevó a cabo el lanzamiento para Costa Rica de la campaña mundial denominada “Desarrollando ciudades resilientes: Mi ci…
“We’re seeing more and more interest and activity from the federal agencies,” said Brian Holland, director of climate programs for ICLEI-Local Governments for Sustainability USA, an organization that works with municipal governments. “It started before superstorm Sandy and has really intensified since that disaster. We see a clear indication that climat…
Journalists and climate scientists at AAAS panel see ‘Superstorm Sandy’ as game-changer on public attitudes. Next step involves finding the right words, writes Jennifer Weeks, a writer specializing in environment and energy stories.
“Sandy connected the dots for a lot of people,” said Harvard biological oceanography professor James McCarthy, a long-sta…
The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) published its draft Climate Change Adaptation Plan today in the Federal Register, allowing the public to comment on it in the next 60 days, reports The Hill. The document will outline the agency's response to global warming.
“Until now, EPA has been able to assume that climate is relatively stable and future…
Andrew M. Cuomo, the governor of New York is proposing to set aside $400 million for buying homes damaged by Hurricane Sandy, have them demolished and then turn the land into natural buffers to protect coastal communities. The buyout program is awaiting the approval of the federal housing agency, reports The New York Times. Mr Cuomo said that New York s…