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Displaying 45 of about 252 resultsA useful reference in looking at the array of issues that confronted responding organizations from the government, UN agencies, the NGO community and international humanitarian organizations following the December 2006 typhoon disaster. Challenges in the course of responding to the needs of the affected communities have been recounted; needs have been i…
A database launched yesterday by Central American officials is intended to predict natural hazards and reduce the potential impact of climate change, reports AFP. 'The challenge of climate change is how we prepare the region to better address this problem to reduce the risks,' said El Salvador's Environmental Minister Herman Rosa Chavez.
In a bid to stay ahead of the negative impacts of climate change, floods and typhoons on food security, the Government of the Philippines and FAO have started using unmanned aerial drones to assess where farmlands are most at risk from natural disasters and quickly assess damages after they strike.
Under a pilot phase of the still-fledgling project fun…
Drones were launched Thursday, March 17, in Pampanga to officially mark a joint undertaking by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the Department of Agriculture (DA) to initiate the use of the technology for disaster risk reduction in the agriculture sector.
“The adoption of modern technologies in agriculture, such as…
The National Hurricane Center will launch storm surge inundation maps for the first time this summer, predicting where and how deep flooding will hit here and elsewhere.
Two years ago the maps were tested on the Outer Banks. Data from hundreds of hurricane forecast scenarios was fed into a supercomputer.
Hurricanes and tropical storms are measured acc…
This contributing paper explores the opportunities offered by digital media mining to complement impact databases. Impact data on past disasters caused by natural hazards (in short, impact data) are of paramount importance for several applications. These include advocacy for investments in disaster risk reduction (DRR) and providing and evidence base fo…
When Cyclone Tauktae struck India’s western coastal areas several months ago, it brought mass destruction of property and disrupted daily life in five Indian states.
Despite the storm’s ‘extremely severe’ designation, the damage and loss of lives were less than expected. This was thanks in large part to national disaster preparation plans, underpinned…
More than 3 years after its creation, the Department of Science and Technology's Project Noah, the country’s leading program for disaster prevention and mitigation, introduces its new and improved website reports the Rappler.
The improved website has a new look, allows more features on the platform, and is more user-friendly. Local government units can…
The Goa government on Friday decided to implement national cyclone risk mitigation project in the state, which has 105-km coastal belt, reports NavHind Times. The project will entail the cost of Rs 140 crore and will have 75:25 ratio expenditure by the Centre and the state government.
The project aims to bring about cyclone forecasting, tracking and wa…
Bangkok - India and the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) have signed a US$ 1 million partnership to support disaster risk management in the region, with a key focus on strengthening early warning systems for coastal hazards including tsunamis, coastal zone flooding, storm surges and tropical cyclones.
India…
The past is often the window to our future, especially when it comes to natural disasters. Using data from the 2018 floods that struck southwestern Japan to calibrate a machine learning model, researchers from the International Research Institute of Disaster Science (IRIDeS) at Tohoku University and the Japan-Peru Center for Earthquake Engineering Resea…
This case-bound book draws upon experiences around the world reflecting how people are using climate information to improve their lives, through climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction strategies. In this book, over 100 authors are relating their work in weather, climate and water services at international, regional, national and local lev…
Two days before Typhoon Dodong makes landfall, government agencies activate their disaster risk reduction and management systems, reports Rappler. Local governments will be “more than 90% crossing 100%” prepared when Typhoon Dodong , whose international name is Noul, makes landfall in Isabela on Sunday, May 10.
This is the assessment of the Department…
An elite group of urban planning researchers from Texas A&M University have been selected to collaborate with scientists from 11 universities in a nationwide initiative aimed at helping communities prepare for and recover from natural disasters.
This interdisciplinary team will collaborate through the newly established Community Resilience Center o…
Vacancy number: ISDR/C/12/2010
Background
The International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (ISDR) is a multi-disciplinary and multistakeholder platform to enable societies to increase their resilience to natural, technological and environmental disasters and to reduce associated environmental, human and economic and social risk and losses. A range of…