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Displaying 60 of about 252 resultsThis book was produced to mark the end of the International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction (IDNDR), a United Nations initiative to reduce the negative effects of natural disasters.
This volume communicates solutions to the problems associated with natural disasters, stimulating discussion and improvements in methods of protecting people and prop…
Situated in the Indian Sundarbans, the cyclone capital of India, this study uncovers how and why advances in scientific knowledge and technological developments are failing to enhance resilience of the marginal and vulnerable populations, instead continually unmaking their lived environments. The investigation is carried out in three steps. Examining th…
This paper evaluates a proposed weather radar nowcasting method based on the Temporal and Spatial Generative Adversarial Network (TSGAN). This method can obtain accurate forecast results, especially in terms of spatial details, by extracting spatial-temporal features, combining attention mechanisms and using a dual-scale generator and a multi-scale disc…
Coastal cities and communities will face more frequent major hurricanes with climate change in the coming years. To help prepare coastal cities against future storms, MIT scientists have developed a method to predict how much flooding a coastal community is likely to experience as hurricanes evolve over the next decades.When hurricanes make landfall, st…
TACLOBAN, 10 December 2013 – The City of Tacloban which accounts for almost 50% of the dead and displaced in the Typhoon Haiyan (known locally as Yolanda) disaster, is to hold a summit inviting mayors and other public representatives to come to the city to talk about the lessons learned for disaster risk management.
The announcement comes with recognit…
Windhoek (Namibia), 27 August 2011 – The Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) Disaster Risk Reduction Unit in partnership with the World Bank’s Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery (GFDRR) and UNISDR is conducting a disaster risk reduction (DRR) stakeholders training workshop from 27-28 August 2011. The workshop will be held along…
Deadline: Tuesday, 1 July, 2014
The School of Public Policy and Management (SPPM) at Tsinghua University and the Humanitarian Policy Group (HPG) at the Overseas Development Institute (ODI) and are pleased to offer the Professional Course on Disaster Management in Asia and the Pacific in Beijing.
The programme will be led by leading Chinese and interna…
International research linkages are increasingly becoming important in securing competitive grants and demonstrating global impact. This one-day research symposium will enable the sharing of disaster and resilience research and is an opportunity to develop a strong research partnership between our institutions.
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Themes of mutual research…
AIR’s client conferences bring together a broad cross section of catastrophe risk management professionals, providing clients with the opportunity to discuss issues of common interest and gain the insight needed to drive risk management.
- Learn how AIR’s latest models and software initiatives are helping the industry better manage catastrophe r…
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The selected candidate will support the Pan American Disaster Response Unit (PADRU) in the Americas as an integral staff member for the preparedness for response phase and during the relief and response phase. The support will be given for the regional and national components of the Red Cross Movement in the Southern Cone and Andean region,…
This course covers the fundamentals of climate science, the earth system and the causes and evidence of climate change. This knowledge explains how the earth system (natural and human) is affected by climate change.
Past and present observed changes are considered, and delegates will learn how climate models work and the nature (and limits of our knowl…
On September 6, 2017, Hurricane Irma hit the Islands of Barbuda and Antigua with catastrophic effects. Hurricane Irma made landfall as a category 5 storm (Saffir-Simpson scale). Compounding the situation, on September 18, Hurricane Maria (also a category 5 storm) affected the island of Antigua. Although Hurricane Maria did not make landfall, Antigua was…
This Allianz Global Corporate & Specialty (AGCS) report examines how natural catastrophe, pandemic outbreak, terrorism and cyber risk could potentially affect megacities in future and provides insight into the different ways in which the insurance industry will be impacted.
This paper demonstrates that (p. 16):
in the context of today’s and…
This study developed by the Information and Communications Technology and Disaster Risk Reduction Division of ESCAP, provides an overview of natural disasters in the Asia-Pacific region and its impacts. Although there were no major disasters in 2014, over half of the world’s natural disasters occurred in the region. Hydro-meteorological hazards were the…
Small Island Developing States (SIDS) are vulnerable to sea-level rise and hydro-meteorological hazards. In addition to the efforts to reduce the hazards, a holistic strategy that also addresses the vulnerability and exposure of residents and their assets is essential to mitigate the impacts of such hazards. Evaluating the socioeconomic vulnerability of…