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Displaying 15 of about 69 resultsThis study verifies the effectiveness of the Swarm Planning's Centre for Development of Creative Thinking (COCD) tool, a creative planning process. Researchers organized workshops with eight student groups to plan house relocation and seawall reconstruction in the 2011 Tohuku Disaster area. Students were allocated who had pros and cons on housing-reloca…
The training module on Urban Risk Reduction and Resilience focuses on various aspects of disaster risks in urban areas. Factors like the concentration of population, economic activities, building activities and networks in urban areas result in aggravated risk from disasters and at times, these factors end up causing disasters as well. The module is des…
SHEAR projects have been conducting research to improve the understanding of aftershock and landslide risks, so that disaster risk reduction planning can be improved, and resilience strengthened.
SHEAR research partners at the University of Cambridge monitored and analysed the sequence of aftershocks to determine how risk had developed. The University…
The School of Environmental Sciences, Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam is organizing the Disaster, Risk and Vulnerability Conference - 2020 (DRVC 2020). In the present COVID-19 scenario the conference will be conducted through Virtual Mode on focused themes during 9–10 October and 16–17 October 2020.
The conference is in continuation of th…
Online Conference: When Disaster meets Conflict
Lessons on Disaster Governance and Humanitarian Action
When disasters happen in a conflict-setting, responses involve many state and non-state actors that try to reach affected populations. Who are these actors and do they work together? Who can affect communities' trust to work for their interests? How…
You are cordially invited to participate in the Webinar on 15th Anniversary of Kashmir Earthquake-2005 Challenges, Resilience & Mitigation, jointly organized by the National Institute of Disaster Management, Ministry of Home Affairs, Govt. of India and The Institution of Engineers (India), J&K State Centre, in collaboration with Divisional…
The entire Himalayan arc is poised to produce a sequence of great earthquakes, and the next big quake -- of the magnitude of 8 or above -- may occur during our lifetimes, according to a study reviewing geological, historical, and geophysical data.
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The study notes that the sequence of future Himalayan earthquakes could be similar to the great ear…
By Sarah Fecht and Ben Orlove
Vibrations in the ground may help to improve advanced warnings about sudden floods that result from glacial melting, according to a study published today in Science Advances.
On October 7, 1994, a natural dam that had been holding back a glacial lake burst, sending floodwaters crashing downstream into the Bhutanese villag…
Since the tragedy of the 2015 earthquakes, Nepal has undergone a political and structural transformation in how it approaches disaster risk governance. This has resulted in the decentralization of authority to the lowest levels of government in an effort to build resilience from the ground up.
Disaster risk reduction (DRR) is most effective when…
This conference is First of its kind on Disaster Risk Reduction focusing on the role of Civil Engineering in building Disaster Resilient Society. This conference envisages providing a platform for researchers to exchange knowledge on disaster risk reduction primarily focusing on civil engineering perspectives and cross-cutting issues. Research and innov…
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Although COVID-19 affects people across the world, the informal sector – low-income households often dependent on informal livelihoods and the informal micro and small enterprises – are disproportionately susceptible to its risks and adverse impacts. The difference in socio-economic factors, such as the lacking social protection and financial a…
While disasters occur relatively frequently almost none are of a scale as serious or complex as the triple disaster that devastated coastal regions of Tohoku, Japan. How can a region recover from a disaster as horrific as that triggered by the earthquake, tsunami and radioactive contamination linked to the explosions and reactor meltdowns at the Fukushi…
This short document helps you understand the importance of risk data for informing and driving the comprehensive urban resilience agenda in which the Bangladeshi government has embarked. The agenda was launched as a response to rapid and unplanned development that is leaving millions of people more vulnerable not only to natural hazards, including cyclo…
This case study has been developed to capture Japan’s experience in road geohazard risk management and offers a way forward for low- and middle-income countries. It includes a discussion of the:
Significant issues Japan overcame, such as the initially narrow scope of road management authorities and expansion of the mandate and planning for geoha…
This research presents a first-of-its-kind methodology to analyze the seismic risk of a railway system using an empirically derived train service fragility curve. The authors demonstrate their methodology using the Chinese railway system. By combining simulated earthquakes, the fragility curve, and empirical train flow data from 2016, the authors quanti…