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Displaying 75 of about 249 resultsThe global event of the 2009 International Day for Disaster Reduction was staged at the Royal Marsden Hospital, which had been severely damaged in a fire in early 2008. The meeting gathered more than 120 participants from all stakeholder groups and was hosted by the UK Health Protection Agency in collaboration with the World Health Organization (WHO) an…
GENEVA, 6 May 2013 - The Philippines and Sweden have two projects each short-listed for the UN Sasakawa Award for Disaster Risk Reduction which will be presented in Geneva on May 22 during the Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction. Projects from Bangladesh and Brazil have also been short-listed by the judging panel which reviewed 28 projects from…
GENEVA, 7 March 2013 - Representatives of UN agencies, funds and programmes completed an action plan this week that will accelerate the integration of disaster risk reduction into all UN country level operations in response to the rising levels of disruption to millions of lives each year from disasters.
The United Nations Plan of Action on Disaster Ri…
RIO DE JANEIRO, 21 August 2012 - The Chief Scientific Adviser to the UK Government, Sir John Beddington, recently spoke to UNISDR about how migration triggered by natural hazards is actually taking people into areas of increasing vulnerability.
Sir John leads the Technology Foresight Programme, which produced the report "Migration and Global Environmen…
The first meeting of the newly appointed UNISDR-STAG will discuss priorities and action of the group for the coming 2 years, as well as working modalities with regional science and technology advisory groups and other UNISDR partner groups such as the private sector, parliamentarians, and civil society organizations.
Increased investment in water management has been high on the agenda at the World Water Week taking place in Stockholm, Sweden this week. On the opening day of the one-week forum, speakers called for increased investments in disaster-resilient infrastructure and smarter water management to avoid drought, floods and other water-related disasters, particu…
Calls for “coalition of action” to address link between natural hazards and nuclear safety at Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction ending today
Geneva – In a year marred by disaster losses over US$300 billion, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called, at the Third Session of the Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction, for a “coal…
Geneva, Switzerland – A new report from the United Nations confirms what governments already hear but are slow to believe: that disciplined public sector involvement in “disaster risk reduction” can significantly reduce setbacks brought by hundreds of droughts, earthquakes, wildfires, hurricanes and other hazards that befall the world each year, on aver…
Addressing journalists at the Palais des Nations this afternoon, General Assembly President Joseph Deiss said that reducing vulnerability to natural hazards must be a top priority of the international community.
“Reducing disaster risks is essential if we are to consolidate progress made in development and poverty reduction,” he said, briefing correspo…
Several institutions worldwide are reflecting on the relevance of training and exercises to critical infrastructure protection and resilience. This is witnessed, for instance, by Council Directive 2008/114/EC in the EU and the Homeland Security Exercise and Evaluation Program in the US. Contributing to the research actions in the field, the present arti…
The #NoNaturalDisasters campaign has always aimed to increase understanding of the true causes of disasters through research, communication and advocacy. As part of this, we're keen to highlight the tools, research and methods used by those working within the disaster risk reduction, disaster management and emergency management sectors.
We're calling r…
In order to understand and predict volcanic events even better, a better understanding of the diverse underground processes involved is required. A new way to detect such processes, even if they are very subtle, is to use fibre optic cables as sensors. The analysis of light that is backscattered in them when the cables are deformed by vibrations, for ex…
This report considers the advantages and challenges of public warning systems (PWS) that use electronic communications services, such as Location-Based Short Message Service (LB-SMS), Cell Broadcast (CB), and multi-hazard warning apps.
The report identifies two main challenges for multi-hazard warning apps to be meaningful and efficient: 1) the reach o…
The IFIP Domain Committee on Information Technology in Disaster Risk Reduction (DCITDRR) has the honor to announce its 3rd IFIP Conference on Information Technology in Disaster Risk Reduction (ITDRR 2018), September 20 - 21st, 2018, Poznan, Poland.
ITDRR-2018 is co-located with the 24th IFIP World Computer Congress (http://wcc2018.org/)
The effects of…
Aarhus University and the Partnership for European Environmental Research (PEER) invite researchers to Aarhus University on the October 3-4, 2013 in order to take stock of and assess the scientific progress towards tackling the grand environmental challenges, as specified in the Horizon 2020 challenge: Climate action, resource efficiency and raw materia…