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Wind-related events account for a large percentage of the world’s economic losses caused by natural disasters. Damage caused by extreme winds such as typhoons and tornadoes is clearly increasing. The number of severe wind induced damage incidents causing loss of life, serious societal impact and threats to national as well as region…
The International Symposium on animals in disaster is divided into four themes:
Theme 1 will focus on disasters' impact on animals and livelihood of vulnerable communities, and the existing gaps and challenges
Theme 2 will highlight the opportunities and the scope that veterinary institutions could play in protect…
The Structural Engineers Association of Alabama is pleased to announce the availability of these important customized training seminars. Recent disasters such as the tornados in Tuscaloosa, and
Joplin; floods throughout the nation; and earthquakes on both coasts, as well as in Haiti, Chile, New Zealand and Japan have displaced hundreds of thousands of p…
Background
Bangladesh is most vulnerable to several natural disasters and every year natural calamities upset people's lives in some part of the country. The major disasters concerned here are the occurrences of flood, cyclone and storm, flash flood, drought, tornado, riverbank erosion etc. As it is true in many parts of the world, microfinance service…
This paper discusses disaster's impact upon Bangladesh and presents governmental and institutional structures responsible for disaster management. It describes country’s disaster risks and natural hazards, such as cyclone, flood, drought and tornado, provides an overview of the country's Disaster Mitigation Programme and outlines lessons learnt and reco…
Summary
A Peace Corps Response Volunteer is needed to serve as a Disaster Risk Management Specialist for the Municipality of Laoang’s Disaster Operations Center (DOC). DOC is a local government unit who’s goal is to save lives, protect properties, alleviate needless sufferings and minimize damage from both natural and human-induced hazards by providin…
Brookings will be launching its annual review of natural disasters for 2011 on Wednesday, March 28. The review draws out some of the particular characteristics of disaster response and recovery which developed countries experienced, such as widespread flooding in Australia, a terrible earthquake in Christchurch, the Japanese earthquake/tsunami/nuclear a…
Coastal Jiangsu Province has installed China's first C-band phased array meteorological radar system, designed to quickly detect and monitor extreme weather including tornados, developers said on Wednesday.
The new type of full digital radar device is able to collect data on the location, intensity and speed of meteorological objects including clouds a…