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Displaying 75 of about 526 resultsNina Shen Rastogi of the Washington Post reports that the damage to ecosystems is not only an environmental concern but also a safety hazard. She stresses the need to make long-term capital investments in for example, safer, sturdier buildings. She also recommends the need to shift from short-term crisis management to long-term environmental planning.…
Designed to improve the strengthening the country’s capacity to respond to earthquakes, sea-quakes and other natural hazards, the Meteoro 2010 exercise will take place from tomorrow during five days in two stages. The first from 21-23 May and finally from 25-26 June 2010.
Writing for the Brookings Institution, Johannes F. Linn, Director of the Wolfensohn Center for Development, stresses the need for national and international attention and action on developing better risk reduction, preparedness and response in the region.
The lack of earthquake risk reduction is a major gap in Haiti’s development efforts, considering its vulnerability to major seismic events, a leading quake expert working with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in the Caribbean country to help build its preparedness capacity said today.
“When the next earthquake hits Haiti we have to be su…
IOM is partnering with the government of Haiti in an effort to strengthen the capacity of local authorities in disaster preparedness, camp management and communications.
Some 111 members of Haiti's Department of Civil Protection (DPC) are being seconded to IOM and will be trained as camp managers next week. In another project a further 15 to 20 members…
Mapelcroft's Natural Disasters Economic Loss Index evaluation places Haiti and Mozambique as the world's most exposed countries for economic losses due to natural hazards from 1980-2010. The Index measures the global economic impact in terms of risk to property and infrastructure of disasters such as earthquakes, floods, droughts, landslides, epidemics,…
La prolifération des sargasses apparait comme une nouvelle menace en lien avec les changements climatiques. Localiser et quantifier l’impact des sargasses avec une app smartphone et une cartographie sur le web contribue à gérer et atténuer les impacts et permet à chacun de contribuer aux Objectifs de Développement Durable. SIGNALERT met à disposition so…
The Exchange of Notes for Japan’s 2.8 billion Japanese Yen (equivalent to approximately 56 million pa’anga) General Grant Aid for the Project for “Nationwide Early Warning System (NEWS) and Strengthening Disaster Communications” for the Kingdom of Tonga, were singed by Mr. Kazuyuki Nakane, State Minister for Foreign Affairs and Hon. Semisi Kioa Lafu Sik…
By Leah James and Courtney Welton-Mitchell
Mental health can be an important factor in solving the puzzle of why people don’t prepare for disasters. Whether one is struggling with depression, anxiety, or trauma-related symptoms stemming from past disasters, a person’s mental state can determine how they engage—or don’t engage—in preparedness activities…
A project of School eartchquake safety initiative (SESI):
This publication not only summarizes the good practices and lessons learned from the project countries but also highlights the task ahead to up-scale from model projects to countrywide activities on school safety.
The project on "Reducing Vulnerability of School Children to Earthquake" under th…
Disaster Risk Management Working Paper Series, no. 5.
This paper examines the ways in which natural resources management and environmental degradation affect natural hazard risk, and makes a preliminary assessment of the importance of such linkages and the extent of their incorporation into disaster mitigation strategies and activities. The analysis is…
This user-friendly handbook provides an overview of several 'natural' disasters that occurred in the world in 2007, and contains good practices submitted by ADRC member countries to share knowledge among relevant stakeholders in order to contribute to global disaster risk reduction, in regard to the progression on the implementation of the Hyogo Framewo…
Minister of the Interior Thierry Mayard-Paul announced the acceleration of the implementation of the Seismic Risk Plan (SRP) in Northern Haiti to improve the way the region prepares for and reduces risks of earthquakes. "We are committed to reducing vulnerability to natural disasters across the country and this program can be a pilot for the rest of the…
"Is Singapore entirely safe? Absolutely not," says Professor Kerry Sieh from Earth Observatory of Singapore (EOS) to Karen W Lim in AsiaOne. Prof Sieh explains that there is a common misconception that 'natural' disasters will not affect the island and points at the need for Singaporeans to educate themselves on earthquakes and tsunamis, especially when…
2011 has been a year of transition for Haiti. Humanitarian aid and the commitment of NGOs in Haiti continued all along the last 12 months, but the 12 January 2010 earthquake has left deep marks on the country. On top of these scars, new strains occurred with the cholera epidemic as soon as October 2010, and the phase of political transition, which ended…