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What is the relationship between education and natural disasters? Can education play a role in ameliorating and mitigating them, preparing people in how to respond, and even helping to prevent them? If so, how? Drawing on research carried out in a number of different countries, including Australia, China, I…
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…
Nepal is prone to different types of disasters with fire being one of the most recurring. Every year, particularly in the dry season, a large number of incidents of fire are reported, mainly in Tarai, where about three-quarters of houses are built with thatched roofs vulnerable to fire. Although the number of deaths is lower than other disasters, the av…
By Robert Muir-Wood
Professor Ilan Noy holds a unique “Chair in the Economics of Disasters” at the Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. He has proposed in a couple of research papers that instead of counting disaster deaths and economic costs, we should report the “expected life-years” lost, not only for human casualties but also for t…
RSIS Comentary, no. 208, October 2015:
This short paper presents the current Southeast Asian haze problem. According to it, the ineffectiveness of forest fire prevention and response lies deeper in the complex disaster governance landscape in Indonesia. Furthermore, the article proposes what can be done in the short term for the haze risk management.
Kathmandu - Nepal is at high risk of natural hazards such as floods, landslides, earthquakes, fires, cyclonic winds, hailstorms, and drought which can lead to hunger and epidemic outbreaks in their aftermath.
Among the major natural hazards, floods and landslides are the most recurrent in Nepal. More people are killed by disasters in Nepal compar…
By Robert Muir-Wood
Catastrophe modeling remains work in progress. With each upgrade we aim to build a better model, employing expanded data sets for hazard calibration, longer simulation runs, more detailed exposure data, and higher resolution digital terrain models (DTMs).
Yet the principal way that the catastrophe model “learns” still comes from th…
By Ninglun Hanghai
Women farmers in Manipur are struggling to grow crops in an increasingly hostile environment in north-east India
It is that time of the year when the weather is dry and windy. Hmuoki has to work even harder than usual to water and fertilise her four acres of farmland on the banks of the Khuga River in Churachandpur district of Manip…
Clearly, in terms of disasters, the South-East Asia Region has been particularly hard-hit in the recent past. The earthquake and tsunami of 26 December 2004, which affected more than six countries of this part of the world, was one of the worst natural disasters in recent history. Recovery efforts are still on today, more than two and half years after t…
The Government of Japan, under its Grant Assistance for Grassroots Human Security Projects Scheme (GGP), is providing funds amounting to some 3,576,700 baht for the Project for Community Based Disaster Risk Reduction (CBDRR) for all 9 Refugee Camps at the Thai-Myanmar border. On March 26, 2012, H.E. Mr. Seiji Kojima, Ambassador of Japan and Mr.Ben MENDO…
The National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) will prepare guidelines for hospital safety and preparedness to deal with on-site emergencies in the wake of the recent fire accident at AMRI Hospital at Kolkata, which claimed more than 90 lives and raised many issues about hospital safety, according to The Hindu. The guidelines will cover fire and all…
By Dr. H. S. Suresh
Earth’s landscape has been subjected to both natural and anthropogenic fires for millions of years.
Natural, lightning-caused fires are known to have occurred in geological time continuously at least since the late Silurian epoch, 400 million years ago, and have shaped the evolution of plant communities.
Hominids have used control…
By E. Vikram
The three-day international workshop on forest fires organized by the World Bank and the Forest Ministry of India is a watershed event in the management of forest fires in the country (1-3rd November 2017). On the first day, discussions were held on the latest technology being used to alert foresters to fires.
Almost all fires in India a…
Indonesia is recruiting tribespeople to help fight outbreaks of haze which shroud Southeast Asia every year with a government deal designed to tap into traditional ways of containing forest fires.
The region suffers every dry season from a haze caused by smouldering fires, often set deliberately to clear land for pulp and paper and palm oil plantations…
This paper explores current practices of community preparedness to wildfire in Indonesia, particularly in East Kalimantan and South Sumatra. It argues that collaboration between stakeholders (community, private companies and government) will be beneficial to increase not only community preparedness but also to reduce fire incidents.