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Displaying 15 of about 1180 resultsDialogue on disaster risk reduction will focus on themes such as climate change, climate adaptation, the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction, the Paris Agreement, experiences and lessons learned by civil society in the implementation of disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation plans, case studies and legislation on disast…
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The event will contribute to a global awareness raising campaign for World Tsunami Awareness Day with a focus on building resilient and inclusive societies. Countries, the United Nations system and stakeholders will reflect on the importance of strengthening inclusive disaster risk governance to reduce existing disaster risks and avoid creati…
This paper presents a framework for reducing wildfire risk at its actual landscape scale. The framework is based on a scientific breakthrough: a new planning tool that gives the wildland fire community the ability to manage fire risk across broad landscapes. Working together through shared stewardship, stakeholders can make cross-boundary investments to…
Flooding is a challenge of financial and social concern affecting a growing sector of the Canadian population. Multiple factors affect flood risk, such as a general increase in population density in urban and sub-urban centres, the loss of natural landscape impacting all provinces, growth in the impermeability of primarily city landscapes, all of which…
Report of the Standing Committee on Indigenous and Northern Affairs
This report contains the proceedings of the Standing Committee on Indigenous and Northern Affairs of the House of Commons of Canada's Parliament. It reports on the efforts of the Committee to study the response to and long-term impacts of wildfires in First Nation communities duri…
Residential basement flooding is on the rise across Canada, due in large part to more frequent and extreme rainfall events. In response, the Intact Centre on Climate Adaptation, University of Waterloo developed the Home Flood Protection Program (HFPP) to help Canadians protect their homes from flooding.
The two primary goals of the HFPP are: (1) to lim…
There has been no similar level of examination regarding how residential basement flooding might impact areas of interest to Life, Health and Disability insurers, such as mental and physical health impacts, and lost time from work. International studies have suggested there may be substantial impacts, but the full extent of these impacts and their finan…
Fuel, aridity, and ignition switches were all on in 2017, making it one of the largest and costliest wildfire years in the United States (U.S.) since national reporting began. Anthropogenic climate change helped flip on some of these switches rapidly in 2017, and kept them on for longer than usual. Anthropogenic changes to the fire environment will incr…
This document is the final investigation report into the August 31, 2017 fire at the Arkema chemical plant in Crosby, Texas. In the days leading up to the incident, an unprecedented amount of rain fell at the plant due to Hurricane Harvey, causing equipment to flood and fail. As a result, chemicals stored at the plant decomposed and…
Este libro se centra en los procesos sociales, institucionales, políticos o culturales imperantes en las maneras como se produce, identifica y gestiona el riesgo. El contexto de reformas de los poderes públicos en el país, el proceso de implementación de una política nacional de gestión de riesgos así como el alcance nacional de las acciones del PNUD Ec…
Community resilience has grown in importance in national disaster response and recovery efforts. However, measurement of community resilience, particularly the content and quality of relationships aimed at improving resilience, is lacking. To address this gap, this paper used a social network survey to measure the number, type, and quality of relat…
This book provides an overview of OECD countries' efforts to collect information on both the economic impacts of disasters and the level of public resources invested in the management of risk. It is based on the results of an OECD survey, two expert meetings held in 2014 and 2016 as well as complementary research conducted by the OECD Secretariat.
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El presente documento recoge el proceso metodológico desarrollado por el Centro Internacional para la Investigación del Fenómeno (CIIFEN) de El Niño a través de 10 años de experiencia, el cual ha constituido la base para el análisis de los efectos del cambio climático en sistemas poblacionales, ambientales, etc., con el fin de permitir a los tomadores d…
This brief publication highlights the 'not-so-natural' human socio-economic factors that are contributing to excess mortality and morbidity rates in the US within the context of hurricanes, storm surge and flooding.
The document calls for urgent action, reinforcement of the health system, basic infrastructure and building codes in order to reduc…
Improved stormwater management for the protection of water resources requires bottom-up stewardship from landowners, including adoption of Green Stormwater Infrastructure (GSI). The researchers use a statewide survey of Vermont paired with a cross-scale and spatial analysis to evaluate the influence of interacting spatial, social, and physical fact…