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Displaying 30 of about 88 resultsBetween May 14 and May 17, more rain fell in Bosnia and Herzegovina than typically falls in three months. Rivers swelled, mountains eroded, and disaster struck the country. Floods ravaged towns and inundated newly-plowed fields. Landslides destroyed roads and other vital infrastructure. People fled their homes, seeking dry land and shelter. The results…
The 43.5 million EUR European Union Floods Recovery Programme marks the first anniversary of the catastrophic floods of May 2014 by reaching a significant recovery milestone.
To date, a total of 100 public facilities damaged in the floods have been rehabilitated with funds from the European Union, which has allowed citizens in the flood-affected areas…
Sarajevo - A year ago this week, heavy rains in Bosnia and Herzegovina caused the worst floods in 120 years. While an extensive rehabilitation effort continues today, including construction of houses, infrastructure, public facilities, health care centres and schools, longer-term disaster resilience initiatives like landslide prevention programmes and n…
By Mark Kammerbauer
The 2013 European Floods submerged many riverine regions in southern and eastern Germany, Poland, and the Czech Republic. The Fischerdorf and Natternberg neighborhoods of the Bavarian city of Deggendorf along the Danube river were flooded after two levees within the region breached. These communities faced an additional danger in t…
This book was produced to mark the end of the International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction (IDNDR), a United Nations initiative to reduce the negative effects of natural disasters.
This volume communicates solutions to the problems associated with natural disasters, stimulating discussion and improvements in methods of protecting people and prop…
Objectives:
Review the experience of selected countries in emergency operations and assess the extent of damage to national economy, human life and the environment
Identify disaster prone areas and recommend remedial actions
Assess vulnerability factors
Appraise institutional setup for disaster prevention and recovery
Review approac…
This course introduces the participants to the state-of-the-art concepts and practices of flood risk management. It covers the European experience in managing floods and stresses in the use of the latest tools in flood risk management.
Course content
The course will introduce the basic concepts of flood risk management and the latest tools and techniq…
FRIAR 2014 is the fourth Conference of this successful series. The conference started at the Institute of Civil Engineers in London 2008 and was reconvened at the Lombardy Region in Milano in 2010 and in Dubrovnik in 2012. Flooding is a global phenomenon that claims numerous lives worldwide each year.
When flooding occurs in populated areas, it can cau…
Elevation? Wet floodproofing? Dry floodproofing? Buyout? Acquisition? Relocation? All of these nonstructural / floodproofing techniques, and the policies surrounding them, will be discussed at the 5th National Floodproofing Conference in Sacramento, California, November 28 – December 1, 2011.
The various floodproofing methods, products, techniques, pro…
These case studies accompany the Handbook on Recovery Institutions is to inform the design of effective institutional arrangements for disaster recovery. They describe institutional structures, legal frameworks, and management lessons gleaned from practical experience across the globe. The case studies aim to provide recovery leaders with critical insig…
This final report presents the outcomes of the Making Cities Resilient New Orleans-Gothenburg exchange. The exchange was part of the United Nation's Making Cities Resilient campaign and concerned with disaster resilience with particular focus on high water levels and flood risk shared by the two coastal cities. With the objective of exchanging informati…
This report sets out key insights and findings from a major research project focussed on the social and political dynamics of flood events. The research sought to understand the evolution of responses to floods in the aftermath of a major event and the implications for longer-term flood management. The project examined perceptio…
Social inequalities lead to flood resilience inequalities across social groups, a topic that requires improved documentation and understanding. The objective of this paper is to attend to these differences by investigating self‐stated flood recovery across genders in Vietnam as a conceptual replication of earlier results from Germany.
This study, there…
2009 Sasakawa award call for nominations now open
Nominations are now open for the 2009 Sasakawa Award for Disaster Reduction. Nominees should be individuals and institutions from around the world who have contributed to building the resilience of nations and communities to natural hazards through innovative practices and outstanding initiatives. Nomin…
This report examines the response to the Pakistan floods of 2010. It states that the frequency and severity of natural disasters are predicted to increase. Along with increases in population, especially in urban centres, the number of fatalities and the extent of damage to physical infrastructure are likely to increase. It stresses that the internationa…