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Displaying 105 of about 802 resultsThe Mexican Flood Resilience Project, led by the Mexican Red Cross, aims to increase preparedness and strengthen the flood resilience of communities in the state of Tabasco. To achieve this, the project has promoted the formation of ‘Community Brigades‘.
Community Brigades are groups of volunteers that are organized and trained to lead preparation…
On 14 August 2021, Haiti was hit by a magnitude 7.2 earthquake with an epicentre in the Canal du Sud (120 km west of the capital, Port-au-Prince). The earthquake killed over 2,200 people and injured more than 12,000. A hazard, such as this earthquake, is often only the trigger of a disaster waiting to happen due to the pre-existing vulnerabilities in th…
Mexico is a seismically active country. Since 2017, six earthquakes larger than magnitude 7.0 have struck the country — four during the month of September. The first, the magnitude-8.2 Tehuantepec earthquake, struck on Sept. 7, 2017. Less than two weeks later, on September 19, the magnitude-7.1 Puebla-Morelos earthquake occurred. The latter quake struck…
It was an overcast morning on April 9, 2021, when the La Soufrière Volcano erupted explosively on the small island of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines in the Caribbean. The event increased the fear already installed in the island inhabitants since December of 2020, when the Volcano began a series of effusive eruptions, causing the country to b…
This study analyses international financial flows to nine countries for the 18 months after recent crises—drought, flood, cyclone, earthquake, and epidemic. It complements the Centre’s analysis of funding flows to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic, exploring similarities and differences for funding flows for natural hazards. International funding of…
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This seminar will focus on efforts to reduce disaster risk through capacity building in Guatemala, a Central American country facing multiple hazards including earthquakes, volcano eruptions and hurricanes. We will hear from experts Ana Victoria Rodrigue…
New Mexico’s 2022 wildfire season and its aftermath reveal the limits of federal resilience funding, but the new federal Community Wildfire Defense Grant program is an anchor point from which to advance reform.
In New Mexico, the 2022 wildfire season has been particularly severe. From April to June, 900,000 acres of public and private land burned throu…
This paper shows that wildfires in the western United States can lead to more severe hazardous weather in the central United States, notably increasing occurrences of heavy precipitation rates and large hail. Both heat and aerosols from wildfires play an important role. As wildfires are projected to be more severe in a warmer climate, the influence of w…
In the fall of 1922, the city of Toronto sent 85 surplus streetcars to Haileybury and other northern Ontario towns to help house thousands of desperate people who had lost their homes to wildfires.
Known as the Great Fire, it burned nearly 1,700 square kilometres of the area — including the town of Haileybury. It killed 43 people and caused m…
This briefing note explores the strategy of Ecosystem-based adaptation (EbA) in urban environments. It includes two case studies from Thailand and a project in Latin America and the Caribbean. It aims to foster a common understanding of key concepts, issues and considerations to help design, plan and implement successful EbA initiatives.
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This note presents examples of results chains for project teams working on disaster risk management (DRM)-related operations to obtain the gender tag with a focus on exposure and vulnerability, preparedness and coping capacity. Details about key policy documents on gender equality and gender-based viollence (GBV), gender gaps in DRM national-level polic…
This research focuses on using flood damage reports in conjunction with contour maps, geographical information systems, Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) data, photographs, and spatial averaging to develop total (high) flood elevation data sets. It is important that a sustainable community better prepare for and design mitigation processes for major f…
To help community health centers and clinics providing free or low-cost healthcare better manage care and protect patients from climate risks, the Center for Climate, Health, and the Global Environment at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health (Harvard Chan C-CHANGE) in collaboration with Americares and with financial support from Biogen, has release…
At a launch event at HistoryMiami this morning, the Office of Civic and Community Engagement (CCE) at the University of Miami unveiled the Climate and Equity Mapping Platform (CAMP), the latest collection of resources from CCE’s Miami Housing Solutions Lab aimed at providing data and policy recommendations to help protect M…
States are struggling to budget given incomplete data
With wildfires growing more intense and frequent, the United States is burning through funds in an attempt to manage the costly blazes. In the last decade, the Department of the Interior and the Forest Service — the two federal agencies most often involved in wildfire preparedness, suppression,…