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Displaying 135 of about 356 resultsMobile phones have become invaluable for receiving emergency alerts such as weather warnings, evacuation notices and notifications about missing persons. In Japan, where earthquakes are frequent, they are vital for delivering earthquake warnings and advising people to take protective actions beforehand.To deal with such situations promptly, the Earthqua…
This report explores real-world applications of resilience and public warning strategies through in-depth case studies focused on the United States, Japan, and the European Union. This groundbreaking report is the result of a dynamic partnership between the UCL Warning Research Centre and Everbridge. The report navigates the complexities of transla…
[...]“Even though IMD has mastered the art of making accurate forecasts of where a particular cyclone would make landfall, sometimes slips happen,” said Koll. Two main reasons can lead to inaccuracies in cyclone forecasts: when a cyclone forms near the monsoon season, which brings a lot of atmospheric complexity to India and when the cyclone’s stru…
About the Asian Disaster Preparedness Center:The Asian Disaster Preparedness Center (ADPC) is an autonomous international organization established for scientific, educational, developmental, and humanitarian purposes with a vision of safer communities and sustainable development through disaster risk reduction and climate resilience in Asia and the Paci…
The delivery of Early Warnings for All (EW4All) requires scaled up and coordinated investments and action across the four essential pillars of end to end, people-centred Multi-Hazard Early Warning Systems (MHEWS). These pillars are (1) disaster risk knowledge; (2) detection, observation, monitoring, analysis, and forecasting; (3) warning dissemination a…
Women battle extreme heat as they push to keep playing sports against all odds in Pakistan's sweltering Sindh provinceKARACHI - Pakistani student Aqsa Shabbir is hot, tired and frustrated. A keen field hockey player, she can no longer train during the day because of a brutal heatwave, she can't sleep at night and she fears she will not play well in…
This research seeks to develop a conceptual spatial framework considering different phases of disaster risk management to evaluate urban physical resilience. Twenty indicators that define urban structure are identified and included in an Interpretive Structural Modeling—Analytic Network Process (ISM-ANP) hybrid model for analysis. The model and the indi…
In this study, rainfall data and water-level variations in an open channel drain and a receiving river controlled by sluice gates were collected and evaluated in detail to investigate pluvial flooding events. To predict these events, researchers generated a hydrodynamic model using InfoWorks ICM and verified its results using water logger data and offic…
Campaign rallies under a blazing sun, long treks to rural polling stations - as Indians prepare to vote, forecasts for extreme heat could add to the challenges of holding the world's biggest election. With voting starting on Friday, parties and authorities are being urged to do more to keep voters, candidates and polling station staff safe following hea…
A recent study published in the PNAS shows that western Central Asia has experienced a long-term drying trend over the past 7,800 years. This discovery, based on the analysis of a stalagmite from the Fergana Valley in Kyrgyzstan, adds a critical piece to the understanding of westerly-influenced hydroclimatic patterns in Central Asia.Central Asia is amon…
Two years after devastating floods submerged a third of the country, killing more than 1,700 and impacting 33 million more through the loss of infrastructure, homes, livelihoods, livestock, and crops, Pakistan stands at a crossroads in disaster response. The CGIAR Fragility, Conflict, and Migration (FCM) Initiative, co-led by IWMI, spearheads innovative…
About CDRIThe Coalition for Disaster Resilient Infrastructure (CDRI) is a partnership of national governments, UN agencies and programmes, multilateral development banks and financing mechanisms, the private sector, and knowledge institutions that aims to promote the resilience of new and existing infrastructure systems to climate and disaster risks in…
The Indian subcontinent is likely to experience an increasing number of extreme weather events in future. The fertile and densely populated plain around the Indus and Ganges rivers is therefore likely to become a climate change hotspot, which could have severe consequences for several hundred million people.This is the conclusion of a study conduct…
Time1300 -1500 ICTAboutThis event, part of the Global Ageing and Climate Change Regional Dialogues webinar series, aims to foster a robust exchange of ideas among a diverse group of stakeholders. Specifically, we invite policymakers and practitioners from international organizations, regional and national governments, NGOs, and donor agencies to join…
World Environment Day (WED) 2024 host, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the United Nations Environment Programme, (UNEP) have launched campaigns to combat desertification, restore land and build drought resilience ahead of global WED celebrations on 5 June in the country’s capital Riyadh. ”Now is the time to act on commitments to prevent, halt and…