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Displaying 120 of about 127 resultsThis document is the 2012 edition of WMO's internationally recognized series gathering together the key climate events of the year. It considers the natural variability caused by the El Niño/La Niña cycle, volcanic eruptions and other phenomena causing the sustained warming of the lower atmosphere, the record loss of Arctic sea ice, extreme cold and sno…
This report provides an inventory of existing early warning systems, organised according to the type of natural hazards, such as earthquake, landslide, tsunami, volcano, wildfire, flood, drought, storm and cyclone, differentiating between rapid and slow onset events and spanning developing as well as developed countries. The report introduces basic conc…
This fact sheet presents UNOPS activities in helping governments and development partners construct disaster-resistant infrastructure and increase the resilience of communities against natural disasters through the design and construction of major infrastructure projects such as schools, roads, bridges and hospitals to the highest standards, able to wit…
This report presents the institutional and legal framework for disaster risk reduction in Zaire, and describes its common disaster risks and natural hazards, such as flood, land slide, drought, earthquake, cyclone and volcano. It outlines the strategies, plans, projects and activities related to disaster prevention and risk management.
The report provi…
This report presents the institutional and legal framework for disaster risk reduction in Western Samoa, and describes its common disaster risks and natural hazards, such as drought, earthquake, cyclone and volcano. It outlines the strategies, plans, projects and activities related to disaster prevention and risk management.
The report provides an eval…
This publication aims to provide a brief overview of the disaster risk management (DRM) strides made in several Latin America and the Caribbean Region countries to date. It includes a set of country notes organised by country priority levels determined by the GFDRR. It first focus on the two GFDRR Priority Countries (Haiti and Panama), then the four Don…
The 2010 annual review of disaster figures based on the EM-DAT database outlines information about the EM-DAT International Disaster Database, its definitions, criteria and content; asks: What did 2010 bring? How different was 2010?; presents 'disaster losses in a changing climate'; provides regional analysis on Africa, the Americas, Asia, Europe, and O…
This document presents a South-East Asia specific disaster risk reduction framework that provides more specific guidance to National Societies in acknowledgement of the Framework for Community Safety and Resilience and global guidance, which outlines the Red Cross Red Crescent approach to disaster risk reduction and guides National Society contributions…
These proceedings of the 2010 Understanding Risk (UR) Forum summarize presentations by leaders of forum sessions, risk experts and practitioners from around the world. It details the fast-paced innovation in risk assessment and documents what can be done to better understand the potential impact of the next monsoon floods in South Asia, earthquakes in t…
This report reviews the progress made in addressing the vulnerabilities of Small Island Developing States (SIDS) through the implementation of the Mauritius Strategy, which includes natural and environmental disasters as one of its themes and means of implementation. It addresses their increased vulnerability due to climate change, the global financial…
This map shows Asia's economic exposure to natural hazards like earthquakes, land slides, storms, storm surges, tsunamis, tropical cyclones, volcanoes wild fires, floods and drought, according to the Natural hazards risk atlas 2012 released by Maplecroft.
This map shows the worldwide distribution of natural disasters that occurred in 2011, according to Munich Re, NatCatSERVICE.
With more than 25,000 entries, NatCatSERVICE is one of the leading global databases for natural catastrophes. Every year between 800 and 1,000 loss events are recorded and analysed. In view of the information collated, the extent…
The Multihazard Index was created by summing category values between 8 and 10 across all six natural hazards. This results in a multihazard index that reflects the number of hazards considered relatively significant in a particular grid cell. Overall, more than half of the world's population lives in areas subject to at least one hazard at a significant…
Multihazard risks were calculated by summing the vulnerability-weighted single-hazard Proportional Economic Loss risk values for each grid cell across the six hazard types (cyclones, drought, earthquakes, floods, landslides, and volcanoes).
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This study aims to identify and document local indigenous knowledge related to disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation in Papua New Guinea (PNG). It presents a collection of indigenous practices that were developed over time by communities in PNG, in response to a variety of hazards including earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, cyclones, floo…