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Displaying 15 of about 183 resultsUnder the umbrella of the UN 70th anniversary celebration in Egypt, the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction-Regional Office for Arab States (UNISDR ROAS) is organizing an awareness campaign under the theme "International Day for Disaster Reduction 2015 - Knowledge for Life" at the Gezira Youth Center in Zamalek, Cairo. The c…
GENEVA, 3 May 2013 - UNISDR Chief, Margareta Wahlström, today welcomed the European Union's newly announced strategy on adaptation to climate change and stated: "The adoption of this new strategy is a major incentive for European states to step up their efforts for disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation.
Urban resilience is especially im…
GENEVA, 31 October 2012 - UNISDR Chief Margareta Wahlstrom spoke to the opening session of this week's extraordinary session of the World Meteorological Congress which is discussing the implementation plan and governance model for the Global Framework for Climate Services.
Ms. Wahlstrom congratulated the World Meteorological Organization on the initiat…
While the current alerting system is already effective in mitigating these effects, researchers found that moving further towards an impact-based alert system which focuses on the repercussions of extreme weather conditions could enable participants, including the NHS and local government, to make more informed decisions.
In practice, this would mean p…
This paper evaluates the effectiveness of the current alerting systems for hot and cold weather used in England to notify the health and social care sector of upcoming extreme weather events. It considers the views of stakeholders on the current system and explore their perspectives on the proposal to move towards an impact-based system.
The pape…
This exploratory investigation provides a new empirical and global perspective on the psychological toll of Extreme Weather Events (EWEs) by exclusively focusing on psychological morbidity among individuals exposed to such events. EWEs impose a substantial health and socio-economic burden on exposed populations. Projected impacts on public health,…
More heart failure deaths were linked with extreme temperatures than other heart conditions, from an international study in the journal Circulation
Research Highlights:
According to a multinational analysis of more than 32 million cardiovascular deaths over four decades, there were more deaths on days when temperatures were at their highest or lowes…
This study provides an overview of subseasonal predictability for case studies of some of the most prominent extreme events across the globe using the ECMWF S2S prediction system: heatwaves, cold spells, heavy precipitation events, and tropical and extratropical cyclones. Extreme weather events have devastating impacts on human health, economic activiti…
Improving the stability of today’s electric grids requires careful planning by stakeholders across the value chain. Regulations related to resilience are changing to meet new and evolving challenges. Therefore, chief technical officers (CTOs) and asset managers of both transmission-system operators (TSOs) and distribution-system operators (DSOs) are res…
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The aim of the conference is to offer a forum for disaster management communities and experts to strengthen their capabilities in using space based information to assess, monitor and respond to climate change related disaster risks and integrate space technology into long-term disaster risk reduction efforts. Increased storms and floods in t…
‘Settlement Planning & Shelter in emergencies’ is a four-day residential course run by RedR India that helps you understand strategies and practices that are intrinsic to the shelter sector and humanitarian sector in general. The course is one of RedR’s Trainings, which aims to improve the effectiveness of specialist and non specialist in emergency…
The scientific program of IUGG 2011 includes symposia, poster presentations and workshops on a wide range of themes related to geophysics and geodesy, including:
- Hydrological Sciences
- Meteorology and Atmospheric Science
- Physical Sciences of the Oceans
- Seismology and Physics of the Earth’s Interior
- Volcanology and Chemistry of the Earth's Inte…
Conference themes:
Climatic hazards: Floods, droughts, dust, typhoons, cyclones, desertification and heat waves and cold spells.
Geo-hazards: Earthquake, volcanoes, landslides, tsunami.
Bio-environmental hazards.
Modern technologies and hazard management: Remote sensing, GIS, GPS and WebGIS.
Human environmental threats: Urbanization, population e…
This manual is the first concrete step in education designed for the entire population, and was created in order to enable citizens to easily access basic information useful for behavior in emergency situations. It is simple and provides basic guidelines and rules of conduct in any type of danger. It lists numerous examples of conduct in emergency situa…
This report shows that a strong and persistent increase in heatwaves and a reduction in extreme cold spells all over Europe. With unmitigated climate change, a current 50-year heatwave may occur almost every year in southern Europe, whereas in other regions of Europe such events may happen every 3 to 5 years. Cold waves, on the other hand, tend to disap…