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Displaying 45 of about 262 resultsThis report's purpose is to provide an overview of the hazard risks facing the nation, identify the common links between technological and natural hazard risk reduction, review the U.S. Government’s current efforts to increase the nation’s disaster resiliency through research and implementation of new tools and technologies, and identify issues and oppo…
The Southern African Development Community (Sadc), one of the regions whose water resources are most severely affected by extreme weather such as droughts and floods, launched a climate change adaptation strategy for its water sector at the COP-17 conference in Durban yesterday, according to the Business Day.
"Lack of infrastructure to mitigate the imp…
By Joel Achenbach and Mark Berman
There are more people and property vulnerable to natural forces. And climate change doesn’t help. Scientists know that global warming does not create a specific hurricane or a wildfire, but climate change, which has been driven significantly by the burning of fossil fuels, primes the pump for extreme weather.
A warmer…
By Amina J. Mohammed
UNITED NATIONS - This year in the Caribbean and on the American mainland, hurricanes have left millions of people in need of assistance.
The Secretary General recently travelled to Antigua and Barbuda and Dominica to show solidarity and see for himself the damage. In Puerto Rico, 3.4 million people have been scrambling for b…
As Day Zero looms and the South African city gets set to run out of water, experts say lessons learned during Melbourne’s brush with a similar fate may help avert a global crisis
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In Australia, the millennium drought, which parched the country for the first decade of the new century, left cities such as Melbourne a year away from running out of w…
This report relates the findings of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) regarding the rise in global temperatures over the past ten years and the correlating rise in the frequency and severity of disaster events. The report is divided into six chapters: (i) chapter one assesses temperature data and analyzes it by continent; (ii) chapter two asse…
Improving the infrastructure in urban slums is essential to a city's disaster preparedness.
By Rina Chandran
NEW DELHI - Upgrading slums and giving tenancy rights to residents is key to climate change adaptation and disaster mitigation in India's cities, an analyst said, as the country braces for extreme weather events of greater frequency and intensi…
By Matt Weiser
Last year, New York City faced an unusual situation. An epic winter in the city’s Delaware River watershed brought heavy snow and very little rain. Stubborn cold meant there was no snowmelt to refill water-supply reservoirs, even as the city’s 9.5 million residents were draining them dry. A midwinter drought loomed.
Yet New York d…
By Fawad Ali
Pakistan’s water crisis may worsen in future given the government’s failure to reach an agreement on how to manage the rivers it shares with its neighbour to its northwest, Afghanistan. Pakistan and Afghanistan share at least seven rivers but have signed no agreement on how to jointly manage the water. This may become a major issue as ongo…
NERC’s 2022 Summer Reliability Assessment warns that several parts of North America are at elevated or high risk of energy shortfalls this summer due to predicted above-normal temperatures and drought conditions over the western half of the United States and Canada. These above-average seasonal temperatures contribute to high peak demands as well as pot…
The School of Environmental Sciences, Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam is organizing the Disaster, Risk and Vulnerability Conference - 2020 (DRVC 2020). In the present COVID-19 scenario the conference will be conducted through Virtual Mode on focused themes during 9–10 October and 16–17 October 2020.
The conference is in continuation of th…
The IFIP Domain Committee on Information Technology in Disaster Risk Reduction (DCITDRR) has the honor to announce the First IFIP Conference on Information Technology in Disaster Risk Reduction (ITDRR 2016), November 16 - 18th, 2016, University of National and World Economy, Sofia, Bulgaria.
ITDRR-2016 provides an international forum for researchers an…
By Jon Christensen
If ever a city was built to be resilient to heavy rains, it is Los Angeles. And yet, El Niño is about to test just how resilient the city is in the short term to flooding, and even more importantly, how resilient it can be to water shortages over the long haul. And thereby hangs a tale about one of the central conundrums of urban res…
By Joe Kullman
Electricity generation and distribution infrastructure in the Western United States must be “climate-proofed” to diminish the risk of future power shortages, according to research by two Arizona State University engineers.
Expected increases in extreme heat and drought events will bring changes in precipitation, air and water temperatur…
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…