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The Report is the first biennial global assessment of disaster risk reduction prepared in the context of the International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (ISDR). The ISDR, launched in 2000, provides a framework to coordinate actions to address disaster risks at the local, national, regional and international lev…
Each year the conference highlights best practices in emergency management, thereby offering conference attendees valuable insight into what works and does not work in mitigating, planning, responding and recovering from disasters and emergencies in Minnesota. This year, the "Best Practices" session focuses on the two major natural disasters affecting t…
This document highlights disaster management and relief as one area where EU and Japan can work even more closely together. Citing EU Commissioner for International Cooperation, Humanitarian Aid and Crisis Response, Kristalina Georgieva, it argues that the EU can learn from Japan on “how to engage with society to create a mind-set of preparedness” – and…
Oxfam is urgently looking for skilled and experienced, fluent French speaking Programme Managers, to work in our earthquake response in Haiti.
Other conditions: Accommodation and field subsistence provided by Oxfam. Full health insurance coverage. Oxfam will contribute to pension/gratuity scheme if applicable.
Oxfam purpose:
To work with others to o…
This policy-focused Global Environmental and Human Security Handbook for the Anthropo-cene (GEHSHA) addresses new security threats, challenges, vulnerabilities and risks posed by global environmental change and disasters. The major focus is on coping with global environmental change: climate change, desertification, water, food and health and with haz…
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Ce document est un rapport sur les évaluations complémentaires de sûreté (ECS) menées en France à la suite de l’accident de Fukushima. Des inspections, menées sur l’ensemble des installations nucléaires jugées prioritaires, ont visé à contrôler sur le terrain la conformité des matériels et de l’organisation de l’exploitant au regard du réfé…
World Bank East Asia and Pacific Economic update 2011, vol. 1:
This update analyses the tragic earthquake on March 11 in Japan with a magnitude 9 on the Richter scale and the subsequent tsunami as a stark reminder of the unpredictable dangers posed by natural hazards. It demonstrates the Japanese people's strength and resilience as they struggle to de…
A framework in which the Indian government has laid out an action plan for reducing the country's vulnerability to potential hazards that are relevant to India, including: environmental disasters such as earthquake, landslide, flood, drought, cyclone, cold wave, heat wave, chemical disaster, fire, epidemic or pest attack; technological and sectoral disa…
This report explores a set of risks that share a potential for wider systemic impact and are strongly linked to a number of significant, long-term trends. Those include: (i) economic risks; (ii) geopolitical risks; (iii) environmental risks, from extreme weather, drought, cyclone, earthquake, flood, to pollution and biodiversity loss; (iv) societal risk…
This document contains the proceedings of the scientific workshop where lessons learned following the Great East Japan earthquake and tsunami were explored and shared. The proceedings summarize the collective efforts by scholars who have examined the Great East Japan Earthquake from various angles.This document seeks to document landmarks of the disaste…
This document is introduced as a toolkit for the implementation of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction by the Parties to the UNECE conventions. In this document, UNECE commits to help United Nations Member States better implement the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction adopted in March 2015 in Japan and reports on its activities in…
After a pair of devastating earthquakes struck southern Turkey and northwestern Syria, the number of confirmed deaths continues to rise, surpassing 50,000 as of Feb. 24.
The United Nations estimates that millions of people on both sides of the border have been affected, including 9 million in Syria alone. Many across northwest Syria…
A study published in Nature Geoscience suggests that excess water extraction contributed to the deadly May 11, 2011 earthquake in Lorca, Spain, which caused 9 people to die and 300 to be injured. As reported by the Huffington Post, scientists found that the extra stress of having pumped vast amounts of water ever deeper to help produce fruits, vegetable…
Brookings will be launching its annual review of natural disasters for 2011 on Wednesday, March 28. The review draws out some of the particular characteristics of disaster response and recovery which developed countries experienced, such as widespread flooding in Australia, a terrible earthquake in Christchurch, the Japanese earthquake/tsunami/nuclear a…
The World Economic Forum launched the seventh edition of the Global Risks report, calling for a flexible response to major crises based on lessons learned from the earthquake and tsunami that devastated northeastern Japan last March. According to the Mainichi Daily News, the report dedicates a special section to the worldwide effects of the disaster and…