Search
Results for " "
Displaying 135 of about 249 resultsAt 3pm on April 23, an unusual warning sound was emitted from millions of phones across the UK. This was the first test of the government’s national emergency alert system, which will eventually be used to warn people about nearby flooding, fires and other hazards.Work on this has been underway for several years, and as an expert in flood risks and clim…
This research presents the first online user experience evaluation of the A4alerts, a crisis app developed to disseminate the flood warnings triggered by the operational impact-based early warning system in Catalonia, Spain. Following an interactive experiment using the A4alerts app to access emergency information within real-based flood scenarios, part…
[...]Now, research released Tuesday shows that such record-shattering heat waves — dubbed virtually impossible without climate change — can be predicted by existing climate models. The study, which models extreme scenarios for various cities, unlocks a new technique that could help communities better prepare for life-threatening heat waves in the future…
The National Centre for Resilience (NCR) is pleased to announce a grant funding opportunity for short projects focused on enhancing community resilience to natural hazards across Scotland. We believe that building resilient communities is crucial to minimise the impact of natural hazards, protect lives, and promote sustainable development. This funding…
GENEVA, 14 March 2013 - The UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR) today stated that for the first time in history the world has experienced three consecutive years where annual economic losses have exceeded $100 billion due to an enormous increase in exposure of industrial assets and private property to extreme disaster events.
UNISDR Director…
GENEVA, 27 February 2012 - Within days of its launch, a new UNISDR survey has received over 1,000 responses spelling out what cities and towns would like to see included in the new global framework for disaster risk reduction which will follow on from the existing Hyogo Framework for Action (HFA) in 2015.
UNISDR Chief, Margareta Wahlström, said: "There…
INCHEON, 6 November 2012 - When it comes to critical infrastructure governments are increasingly aware of the role of disaster risk reduction in planning, and the value of applying the priorities for action in the Hyogo Framework for Action when it comes to protecting their investments.
Over 30 government officials from Armenia, Cambodia, The Gambia, L…
UNISDR is launching a call for collecting "good practices" and lessons learned by cities/local governments, particularly for those local governments or partners that have already signed-up to the campaign or are in the process of doing so. Illustrative good practices from other contexts are also welcome.
The submissions will be made available online on…
The INQUIMUS 2018 Workshop will illustrate and discuss how quantitative and qualitative assessment methods could boost a transition toward a new generation of multi-hazard risk, vulnerability and resilience assessments. Particular attention will be paid to complex systems and network sciences’ methods (e.g. Bayesian networks, system dynam…
To help researchers to have more impact and policymakers to use evidence for policy solutions, the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre (JRC) and Directorate General for European Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid (DG ECHO), in collaboration with the Italian Civil Protection Department, the International Network for Go…
Intro
The EC Disaster Risk Management Knowledge Centre (DRMKC) in collaboration with DG ECHO is organizing a virtual training session on the Risk Data Hub on the 15th of June.
The aim of the training is to familiarize the different stakeholders with the functionalities available in the Risk Data Hub. The purpose is to train the users on how to best ex…
This study sheds light on the emergence of climate services as an essential tool to bridge the advancement in climate science and meteo/earth observations with a variety of operational fields in the domains of Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) and Climate Change Adaptation (CCA). In particular, it presents the features of CLARITY CSIS, an innovati…
[...]
The Santa Teresa Smart Bay, in an area on the northwestern coast noted for tourism and diving, is Italy's first underwater "living" laboratory where scientists use aquatic invertebrate animals known as bryozoans and other organisms as live sensors.
[...]
"We are monitoring PH, which is also related to ocean acidification, and the oxygen level,…
DescriptionThe importance of science in understanding disaster risks and the need for science-based strategies at local, national and international levels in the private, public, and third sectors are now widely recognised. The Risk and Disaster Science MSc aims to meet the growing need for experts trained in disaster science in sectors ranging from fin…
LINKS “Strengthening links between technologies and society for European disaster resilience” is a project funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research & Innovation Programme (links-project.eu). The aim of this conference is to present the activities and main findings from the first year of the LINKS project.
The overall aim…