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Following hurricanes Erika and Maria’s devastation to Dominica, Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit became a beacon of hope and rose to the challenge not only to ensure that more than 5,000 Dominicans will be able to relocate into new homes, but he also embarked on an ambitious goal to ensure that Dominica becomes the world’s first cl…
By Nik Steinberg, Director of Analytics at 427
What does the future hold?
New research on sea level rise emphasizes the potential for dire changes over the course of the century. Recent satellite data suggests that warming water is causing East Antarctica to melt more quickly than previously thought and a study released in early May fou…
Disaster preparedness and mitigation in the Americas, issue 117, April 2012, special edition:
This issue focuses on safe hospitals. It calls on the Ministers of Health of the Americas who signed the Plan of Action on Safe Hospitals for having safer health facilities by 2015, proposing to revisit some issues relevant to this topic, and to take action n…
This guide contains information to help readers better understand the areas of their home or business that are more vulnerable to earthquake damage and offers solutions to minimize the risk of property losses. Key topics covered include: (i) the relationship between home or business and an earthquake; (ii) key areas of home or business that are especial…
This report represents one of the first attempts to compile all research on the impacts of climate change on the built environment in the United States and to link impacts with strategies for addressing them. It explores how climate change mitigation and adaptation efforts at all scales interact synergistically, with a focus on how green building profes…
This report summarizes findings of an in-depth California Earthquake Authority (CEA) research project to survey and analyze what happened to single-family dwellings and homeowners affected by the August 24, 2014 South Napa M6.0 earthquake. Through an online survey, interviews, and home inspections, a large amount of new data were collected about the cha…
The report contains two recommendations aimed at improving the Hazard Mitigation Planning programme, which was designed to encourage state, tribal, and local jurisdictions to (i) identify the natural hazards that affect them and (ii) implement projects that will reduce losses from disasters, including development of land use and building code regulation…
"De las buenas prácticas que se estarán presentando, todos podrán ver cómo en Chile se está llevando el tema del riesgo sísmico en área en el que Chile tiene muchas fortalezas, como el código de construcción es bastante bien concebido y actualizado, sino que también es muy bien consistentemente aplicado. Lo cual hace que desde el punto de vista estructu…
The importance of reducing exposure to disasters took on a personal hue for the Secretary-General’s Special Representative for Disaster Risk Reduction, Margareta Wahlström.
The envoy had been due to present the Secretary-General's Report on the Implementation of the International Strategy for Disaster Reduction to the UN General Assembly in the first w…
Press release:
The Insurance Institute for Business & Home Safety (IBHS) provided compelling testimony today before the Transportation and Infrastructure Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings, and Emergency Management in support of the “Safe Building Code Incentive Act” (HR 2069).
“Every region of our country is vulnerable to one…
In her article for the Financial Times, Helen Clark, administrator of the UN Development Programme and former prime minister of New Zealand, praises Haiti's efforts to build back a more resilient country with 'urban ingenuity.' Talking about a UNDP and Haiti government initiative which has registered around 20,000 people, with 5,000 are being trained in…
As I write this, Hurricane Sandy’s devastation is felt all over the US east coast, all the way to Canada. More than 40 people died, thousands have been evacuated. Cities look like props in an apocalyptic movie. The New York stock exchange was closed for two days in a row – the first time this has happened due to weather since 1888!
But behind the bad…
The Vancouver Sun reports that severe weather events such as superstorm Sandy are creating a new, $1-billion baseline for annual severe weather payouts by Canada's property insurers.
"On average, Canada now experiences 20 more days of rain compared with the 1950s," said the June 2012 report prepared for the Insurance Bureau of Canada (IBC) by The Insti…
By Kelly Pohl
For communities land use planning is more effective than logging on federal lands to reduce future wildfire disasters
The President issued an executive order last month that instructs federal land managers to treat 8.45 million acres of land and cut 4.4 billion board feet of timber. But land use planning, not logging on feder…
By Dena Adler
Since September 2017, Congress has kept the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) afloat with a series of short-term extensions, repeatedly punting on a valuable opportunity to issue a long-term reauthorization and reform the program to better protect communities from the increased risks of flooding spurred by climate change. But the…