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Displaying 60 of about 5008 resultsTheir faces smeared with a traditional mussiro mask to enhance their skin, the women stoop to pluck shellfish from the mudflats of Ibo Island, off northern Mozambique. Dropped into plastic buckets, the dripping harvest will later be cooked and processed for sale, buttressing their incomes – and their independence. The baby-blue sky and lapping wate…
When a country is hit by a slow-moving disaster, such as a drought, it can take months or even years to see the devastating impact. Between October 2020 and June 2022, Ethiopia experienced five consecutive below-average rainy seasons, with the 2022 March-May season being the driest in 70 years. The drought’s prolonged nature ultimately affected an estim…
The authors developed a step-wise, bottom-up approach, in which a range of qualitative and semi-quantitative methods was used iteratively to reconstruct interactions and feedback loops between risk components and impacts of consecutive drought-to-flood events, and explore their spatiotemporal variations. Within this approach, they conceptualize disaster…
This study aims to provide this global overview of urban drought risk by carrying out a global-scale analysis for 264 urban agglomerations. The goal is to find global patterns of drought risk as well as the underlying patterns of drought hazard, exposure, and vulnerability. The study will focus on hydrological droughts, which relates to deficits of stre…
This background report supports the aim of the European Commission to establish a better understanding of drought impacts and risks for different sectors of society, raise awareness amongst all water stakeholders regarding the increased risk of drought due to climate change, exchange information on effective options for dealing with drought risk and ste…
UNISDR Regional Office for Africa and African Centre of Meteorological Applications for Development (ACMAD) will venture into a partnership to establish dialogue between climate scientists and disaster risk managers.
The partnership is aimed providing relevant climate services to be translated by disasters risk managers into risk reduction measures, co…
There is much talk about investing in irrigation in Kenya’s drylands, a vast swathe of perennially drought-threatened territory. The idea of greening the “desert”, boosting food production, and creating new livelihoods is a compelling one.But a note of caution: The type and organisation of irrigation that’s being pushed really matters. Will such irrigat…
Showcase Governments who successfully build disaster resilience towards drought, floods, and cyclones.
Anticipatory action is commonly designed to address one specific hazard, such as drought, but many people today experience myriad overlapping hazards and challenges. Given this reality, there is a need to better understand how anticipatory action fits within the context of these complex crises. How is anticipatory action assistance perceived and us…
Institutional changes for addressing natural hazard and climate risk as a sustainable development priority against the context of the July /August 2011 drought disaster in the Horn of Africa.
This booklet presents the success stories from the Drought Resilience and Sustainable Livelihoods Program (DRSLP-II), which is funded by the African Development Bank (AfDB) and implemented by Save the Children Somalia/Somaliland through the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) to counteract the adverse effects of recurrent droughts in the H…
The Pacific Platform for Disaster Risk Management is an annual conference jointly organised by the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR) and the Pacific Community (SPC) with support from international and national partners. The event represents a unique opportunity for governments to reaffirm their political commitments to the…
This paper analyzes and compares the impacts of multiple types of extreme events across several domains in Europe, to reveal corresponding impact signatures. The authors characterize the distinct impacts of droughts, floods, heat waves, frosts and storms on a variety of biophysical and social variables at national level and half-monthly time scale.They…
New method pinpoints streamflow drought duration, severity.Lack of rainfall is not the only measure of drought. New UC Riverside research shows that despite a series of storms, the impact of drought can persist in streams and rivers for up to 3.5 years.There are two measures of drought in streams. One measure is the total water level, which is impacted…
This Drought Risk Atlas is an effort to better understand, estimate and map drought risks in the EU. In particular, it attempts to characterise how drought hazard, exposure and vulnerability drivers interact and affect different systems, notably: agriculture, public water supply, energy, river transportation and terrestrial and freshwater ecosystems. Ne…