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Displaying 90 of about 285 resultsBy Shana Udvardy
The 29th of October marks the 5-year anniversary of when Hurricane Sandy first made landfall on the mid-Atlantic coast of the U.S. It comes at a time when Americans are reeling from the unprecedented hurricane season that devastated communities in Florida, Texas, Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands. Lives were lost, homes destroyed,…
By Lynn Englum
On October 29, 2012, Hurricane Sandy made landfall on the New Jersey coastline and swept into the New York City Metropolitan Region as a tropical storm. It unleashed flooding and destruction in its wake and became the second costliest disaster in U.S. history with $65 billion in damages.
The storm brought the region to it’s knees, crush…
Early alerts to media, police and the military should be expanded to directly reach mobile phone users, disaster experts say
By Amantha Perera
COLOMBO - In the early evening of Nov. 29, Ajith Dias, an office worker in Colombo, started receiving warnings on Facebook of a brewing storm nearing Sri Lanka's southern coast.
"It was Wednesday early evening…
By Achim Steiner, UNDP Administrator and Irwin LaRocque, Secretary-General, Caribbean Community (CARICOM)
Imagine relocating the entire population of your country in the face of a colossal hurricane and two months later still not being able to get back home. Now imagine spending several nights in a shelter and taking a stroll the ne…
As a key component of their program, the Pacific Islands Development Forum (PIDF) has joined forces for the Pacific with a long-term flagship program of the Global Island Partnership — the Island Resilience Challenge.
The foundational aspects were solution collection and sharing, scaling and investment pipeline creation, in a context of ridge to reef m…
By Alex Gumm
This year has been record breaking for extreme hurricane activity. First came Harvey, which dropped a record-breaking 50-plus inches of rain across parts of southeast Texas, leading to widespread flooding. Less than two weeks later, Irma pummeled parts of the Caribbean before slamming into Florida. And most recently, Maria destroyed liveli…
Basseterre, St. Kitts – As climate change becomes more prevalent worldwide, as well as in the federation, St. Kitts and Nevis is undertaking initiatives to ensure that the necessary measures are put in place to protect lives and livelihoods.
The most recent of such initiative was a stakeholder consultation workshop Oct. 3 geared toward enabling stakeho…
By Sarah Fecht
Breezy Point isn’t next to the beach—it more or less is the beach. It’s a community built on sand. Occupying the Rockaway Peninsula that juts out of Queens, NY and into the Atlantic Ocean, residents are never more than a few minutes’ walk to the brackish bays that surround the thin strip of land. The flat landscape and many of the alley…
By Emma Foehringer Merchant
In the immediate aftermath of Superstorm Sandy, Northeastern states published resilience reports, action plans and infrastructure goals galore. The storm was devastating, but next time, they said, they’d do better.
Five years later, the recovery effort shows rebuilding takes serious time. After Sandy, "resilience" became a…
ASU professor part of group of researchers charged with identifying sources of coastal resiliency, implementing them in Caribbean
As extreme weather events become more commonplace, regions of the world that get hit the hardest are often left scrambling to put the pieces of their homeland back together.
Sian Mooney, associate dean and professor at Ariz…
This publication describes the experience of the German Red Cross in Bangladesh with the development and implementation of forecast based actions for floods and cyclones. This publication is written for practitioners in disaster risk management.
In Forecast based Financing (FbF), two basic features are distinguished. The first describes the…
By Laura Lightbody
States and communities need more financing tools to reduce risks.
Natural disasters tend to bring out the best in people. Media and other eyewitness reports during and after hurricanes Harvey, Irma, and Maria showed residents helping each other weather the storms and their aftermath, often traveling long distances to do so. While t…
By Jamie Anderson
As a society, we are only now beginning to understand the emotional, physical and economic toll of recent catastrophic events such as hurricanes Harvey and Irma, says Auburn University climate scientist Hanqin Tian.
This past August, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, or NOAA, had forecasted the likelihood that 2017…
By Paul O'Hare, Angela Connelly and Iain White
In the wake of the devastation caused by Hurricane Harvey and Hurricane Irma, it was reported that up to 80% of home damages were not insured. Insurance schemes are widely advocated as a means of facilitating recovery from – or resilience to – natural and human-made disasters. For those without insurance,…
By Sophie Hares
MEXICO CITY, Sept 14 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Caribbean nations need faster access to capital to invest in protection against the creeping effects of climate change, as many struggle to recover from the devastating blow of Hurricane Irma, said the president of the Caribbean Development Bank.
The region will push at upcoming U.N.…