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Displaying 90 of about 789 resultsReferring to the March 11 Japanese triple disaster and humanitarian crisis, Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency Director General Helena Lindberg raises the issue of 'complex megadisaster' as reminder of the extent of our own vulnerability. In her contribution to PublicService.co.uk, she highlights some of the important lessons drawn for these events, as…
"Earthquake experts said the scientists had been unfairly scapegoated for failing to predict the unpredictable," writes Stephanie Pappas for LiveScience regarding the manslaughter verdict for six Italian scientists and one government official accused of being too reassuring about the risk of an earthquake prior to the deadly temblor in 2009 in L'Aquila,…
The Argentina National Space Activities Commission (CONAE) launched a new Earth observation satellite that will support disaster management efforts. SAOCOM 1A is the first of a constellation of two radar satellites. The remote sensing mission aims to provide timely information for disaster management as well as monitor…
By Lorenzo Piccio, GFDRR
As extreme weather becomes the “new normal” in the Balkans, governments and communities across the region are striving to better understand the climate and disaster risks they face so that they can put in place the appropriate policies and strategies.
It was against this backdrop that hundreds of experts and pra…
This report focuses on understanding how civil protection organisations learn from direct or indirect experiences (events) and planned learning processes (exercises). An implicit assumption of the authors was that civil protection organisations should be learning organisations that document and respond to operational, coordination, and planning iss…
This report presents the key insights and findings from a Comparative review of the First Aid App funded by the Global Disaster Preparedness Center (GDPC). Results are based on a combination of primary and secondary research focusing in participating countries: Czech Republic, Hong Kong, Iceland, Ireland, Israel, Malta, Mexico, Myanmar and Switzerland.…
This study provides a yearly overview of natural disasters in the Asia-Pacific region and its impacts. According to the report, 160 disasters were reported in the region, accounting for 47 per cent of the world’s 344 disasters. The region bore the brunt of large scale catastrophic disasters with over 16,000 fatalities, more than a two-fold increase sinc…
Natural Hazards Earth System Sciences Discussions, January 2016, doi:10.5194/nhess-2015-324:
This paper explores what data is currently available to describe the impacts of the flood event of June 2013 and what can be learnt from them about the types and severities of flood impacts in different sectors. It analyses how good is this data and information…
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Le Ministère de l'Ecologie et l'Association Réseau IDEAL viennent de mettre en ligne un portail "DICRIM : Document d'Information Communal sur les RIsques Majeurs". L'objectif est de répertorier et de permettre l'accès à tous les DICRIM réalisés en France. Les Collectivités sont invitées à répondre à une enquête et à diffuser leur Document.
Guyana - The newly accredited Ambassador of Finland to the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) H.E. Mikko Pyhälä has pledged his country’s support in building the Region’s resilience to natural disasters through the development of technologies that could provide 'real time data' of impending hurricanes and floods.
In his remarks at the Ceremony for the Prese…
By Giriraj Amarnath
Extreme weather events are not new to the Asia Pacific. Every year, major swaths of the region are visited by seasonal monsoons that have the potential to bring floods and destroy property, crops, and livelihoods. At other times of the year, water resources are so scarce that agricultural activity grinds to a halt.
These variation…
Growing Climate and Disaster Risk
In 2017, impacts from natural disasters led to over $300 billion in estimated economic losses globally – more than double the amount for 2016. Economic setbacks of this scale can have devastating consequences for countries like Armenia, which is not only vulnerable to the effects of climate change b…
As Britain’s register for vulnerable energy customers exceeds 6 million customers in need for the first time, Energy Networks Association (ENA) today announced the launch of its Winter Resilience Committee.
The number of customers enrolled in the Priority Services Register run by energy network companies, has rocketed to more than six million people, m…
This case study addresses the need to increase the ability to anticipate and prepare for changing climate risks – not only in the coming decades, but also in the next days, weeks, months, and years – in order to cope with and adapt to the impacts of climate change. It presents strategies for addressing increasing climate risks, such as the 'Early Warnin…
This user-friendly handbook provides an overview of several 'natural' disasters that occurred in the world in 2007, and contains good practices submitted by ADRC member countries to share knowledge among relevant stakeholders in order to contribute to global disaster risk reduction, in regard to the progression on the implementation of the Hyogo Framewo…