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Displaying 15 of about 43 resultsThe conference motto for IDRC Davos 2008 is: Public-private partnership – key for integral risk management and climate change adaptation.
IDRC Davos 2008 will address global problems and attract participants from all over the globe. We expect more than 1300 participants from 130 countries.
The conference will take an integrated, multidisciplinary appro…
The 24th Conference on Severe Local Storms is sponsored by the American Meteorological Society and organized by the AMS Committee on Severe Local Storms. The conference will be held 27-31 October 2008 at The Hilton DeSoto Hotel in Savannah, GA.
This map illustrates population density within and outside of a 10m Low Elevation Coastal Zone: Eastern United States of America.
Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN), Columbia University. (2007).
Country-level estimates of urban, rural and total population and land area in a low elevation coastal zone (LECZ) were generat…
This map illustrates population density within and outside of a 10m Low Elevation Coastal Zone: Great Britain.
Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN), Columbia University. (2007).
Country-level estimates of urban, rural and total population and land area in a low elevation coastal zone (LECZ) were generated globally using G…
This map illustrates population density within and outside of a 10m Low Elevation Coastal Zone: Bangladesh.
Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN), Columbia University. (2007).
Country-level estimates of urban, rural and total population and land area in a low elevation coastal zone (LECZ) were generated globally using Glob…
State government of Orissa has submitted a proposal of Rs 609.40 crore with National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) to initiate measures to face calamities. Rs 190 crore of these funds would be earmarked for saline embankment along the coast, Rs 195 crore would be kept aside for providing road connectivity to various calamity shelters. Similarly,…
Bangladesh communities are learning how to protect themselves from harm during a crisis, thanks to disaster mitigation, preparedness and awareness programmes carried out by Bangladesh Red Crescent volunteers.
The volunteers have been working in districts such as Tangail, which is prone to flooding every year from the river Jamuna, which flows through i…
This edition of the World Disasters Report 2002 provides evidence that investing in preparedness and mitigation helps combat the terrible human and economic toll of disasters. Reducing disaster risk is an urgent priority not only for disaster managers, but for development planners and policy-makers across the globe...
The World Disasters Report 2002 fe…
This report focuses on a “business-as-usual” future in which the world continues to emit heat-trapping gases at an increasing rate. We base our economic projections on the most pessimistic of the business-as-usual climate forecasts considered “likely” by the scientific community. In this projected climate future, which is still far from the worst case s…
This report shows that successful disaster risk reduction policies, integrated into development work, save lives and money, making vulnerable communities more resilient and protecting development gains. This report examines how to achieve those goals – and the cost of failure.
This report is part of a series of papers written to inform public debate on…
Santa Maria Manicera, Nicaragua - Ines Vanegas is a survivor. Whether it was good fortune or an accident, she escaped death when Hurricane Mitch sent a wall of mud and water racing down the slopes of the Casita volcano Oct. 30, 1998, burying two villages and killing more than 2,000 of her neighbors in about five minutes. Badly injured, she survived, as…
Article in: Science, vol. 309, no. 5742
We examined the number of tropical cyclones and cyclone days as well as tropical cyclone intensity over the past 35 years, in an environment of increasing sea surface temperature. A large increase was seen in the number and proportion of hurricanes reaching categories 4 and 5. The largest increase occurred in the…
Hurricane Katrina is the most costly natural disaster ever to strike the United States, and the deadliest since the Lake Okeechobee disaster (hurricane) of September, 1928. In addition, Katrina was one of the strongest storms to impact the coast of the United States during the last 100 years. At landfall, sustained winds were 127 mph (a strong Category…
The United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA) through its Platform for Space-based Information for Disaster Management and Emergency Response (UN-SPIDER) programme, UNDP-Barbados and the OECS Sub-regional Office, the Caribbean Disaster Emergency Response Agency (CDERA) and the Department of Emergency Management of the Go…
his map illustrates population density within and outside of a 10m Low Elevation Coastal Zone: Viet Nam.
Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN), Columbia University. (2007).
Country-level estimates of urban, rural and total population and land area in a low elevation coastal zone (LECZ) were generated globally using Global…