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Displaying 15 of about 285 resultsOn September 18, 2017, Hurricane Maria hit Dominica, bringing intense rainfall which caused flashfloods and landslides. Hurricane Maria was one of the most rapidly intensifying storms in recent history, intensifying to a category 5 hurricane.
The impacts of Hurricane Maria were severe for both the country’s economy as well as the human development of…
Revolving around the central theme of Building Resilience and Adaptation for Sustainable Development, the 3rd WCDM-2017 will involve national and sub-national governments, scientific and technical organizations, academia, professional bodies, industrial sector, civil society, practitioners, media along with UN bodies, multi-lateral and regional org…
We are pleased to invite you to join us on 16-17 May for a UNFCCC technical expert meeting on Integrating climate change adaptation with the Sustainable Development Goals and the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction, taking place during the Bonn Climate Change Conference.
The two day meeting will allow participants to identify challenges and co…
The 4th edition of the Coastal Hazard Management Short Course will be held in Brisbane 3-4 May 2017, with a study tour on 5 May. The course will cover coastal hazard management theory and practice relevant to Australia and the Asia Pacific region. This coming edition is particularly relevant in the light QCoast 2100 program, a $12M commitment from…
Today Bangladesh stands at a vital crossroads in its development path. Having averaged a 6 percent economic growth in the past decade, the country attained lower-middle income country status in 2015 and achieved five out of eight Millennium Development Goals by the same year. The number of now widely adopted practices of development, which were first te…
This handbook reviews the techniques, methodologies and best practices for using geospatial information in support of decision making for disaster risk management. The focus is on specific hazards, including flood, cyclone, earthquake, landslide, volcanic activity and forest fire. While space-based information can significantly enhance disaster emergenc…
This study aimed to investigate the factors that influence human displacement and community livelihoods and ways to reduce vulnerability from internal displacement in Uttar Bedkashi Union, Bangladesh, which was hit by cyclones Sidr in 2007 and Aila in 2009. Field investigation, focus group discussion, in-depth household survey, key inform…
This handbook is targeted at local builders and provides guidance and options for typhoon-resilient features to be incorporated in the housing development process in the city of Da Nang, Vietnam. The accompanying handbooks, with the same name as this document, provide guidance for local officials and low-income households.
The technical handbook…
This paper quantifies the causal effects of hurricane windstorms on economic growth using night lights in the Central America region at the highest spatial resolution data available (1 square kilometer). The paper uses a unique data set of monthly night lights data to capture the temporal disaggregation of hurricanes. Hurricanes in Central America are o…
This reference manual provides in-depth knowledge on the techniques, methodologies and best practices for using geospatial information in support of decision making for disaster risk management for specific hazards. Space-based information can significantly enhance disaster emergency response and preparedness and producing and using such information is…
This edition of the Cred Crunch newsletter provides an overview of the impact of natural disasters worldwide in the first half of 2017. It summarises the natural disaster events that have occurred and lists countries according to different dimensions of impact, including the number of deaths, the number of people affected, estimated economic damages, an…
This report summarizes the lessons learnt from the 2015-2016 El Niño event and represents a one UN approach to put these lessons into practice to reduce the impacts of future extreme climate events, and to help enhance the resilience of people across the Asia-Pacific Region. The report highlights key achievements in science and technology for under…
This background paper is part of the Pacific Possible project at the World Bank and was prepared to support the thematic focus area of "Managing increased stress on pacific livelihoods". This background paper considers the following key issues regarding the changes in Pacific Island Countries (PICs) by the year 2040:
The potential socio-eco…
By Benjamin Lesser and Ryan McNeill
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Across the country, newer construction in flood-prone areas generated more than $9 billion in claims for structural damage on the cash-strapped flood insurance program between 2000 and 2015. Flood-management authorities say that some of those claims probably never would have been filed had proper building cont…
NEW ORLEANS — New research shows human-induced climate change increased the amount and intensity of Hurricane Harvey’s unprecedented rainfall. The new findings are being published in two separate studies and being presented in a press conference today at the 2017 American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, along with additional new findings about rece…