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Displaying 135 of about 939 resultsPasig City, one of the 17 local government units that comprise Metro Manila, has tapped the services of EMI to help the city formulate a Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Plan (DRRMP) that will provide a better understanding of disaster risks that the city and its residents face.
The plan is hoped to improve the capacity of the Communicati…
According to a survey by The Yomiuri Shimbun, 44 prefectures and 15 ordinance-designated large cities are re-evaluating their disaster preparedness and response plans further to the March 11 Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami.
The damage from yesterday's earthquake was minimal, however, the NZ Herald's Fran O'Sullivan questions why the latest national infrastructure plan does not emphasise more the need to ensure that the country's networked infrastructures and public buildings, such as schools and hospitals, can withstand the impact of a major earthquake.
The Mainichi Daily News reports that officials said on Tuesday at the government's disaster prevention panel that in the wake of the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, disaster preparedness plans will be revised. The plan calls for measures against two types of tsunami - those of the largest class and others of sizes that occur relatively frequently - bas…
Dewi Safitri from the BBC Indonesian Service takes a look at how Yogyakarta, despite being hit by landslides, floods and volcanic eruptions this year alone, is better coping with disasters.
In May the Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono was awarded the title 'Global Champion for Disaster Risk Reduction 2011' by the United Nations Internationa…
In his article for Metropolis Magazine, John Cary says, "As an architect, it’s humbling and heartbreaking for me to accept the sad fact that earthquakes don’t kill people; buildings do." Citing the recent earthquakes in Japan and New Zealand as examples, he asserts that it’s not enough for us to focus on natural disaster response only in the wake of one…
Según el Diario Proa Regional, los resultados de los estudios que actualmente se realizan en las comunas de San Antonio, Cartagena, Santo Domingo y El Quisco, permitirán establecer un antecedente para la concreción de futuras modificaciones en los planos reguladores comunales y así evitar desastres como los ocurridos por el terremoto del 27 de febrero d…
By Rong-Gong Lin II and Cecilia Sanchez
Certain types of buildings are especially vulnerable to collapse during earthquakes — and earthquake-prone Mexico City is filled with them.
Those with so-called brittle concrete frames are well-known hazards. Buildings with a weak first story, often supported by narrow columns to accommodate parking, are also k…
By Elif Ayhan, Artessa Saldivar-Sali and Alanna Simpson
“It’s not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.” This was the response given by Sir Edmond Hillary when asked how he and his companion Tenzing Norgay became the first to summit Mt Everest, when so many before had failed. He believed we could all overcome our biggest challenge simply by deciding…
Sendai City issues a Sendai DRR Newsletter to share experiences and lessons from the Great East Japan Earthquake experienced in Sendai and the Tohoku region, convey measures for preventing and mitigating disasters taken by various stakeholders, and introduce the initiatives that Sendai is implementing in its efforts to become a ‘Disaster-Resilient and E…
This study examines the effects of two megatrends – climate change and urbanization – on environmental emergencies. It considers how climate change and urbanization affect the scope and scale of emergencies. It argues that these trends are posing multiple challenges for emergency responders by overwhelming national and local-level emergency preparedness…
Southasiadisasters.net issue no. 117, September 2014:
This issue focuses on the important theme of the ‘Need for disaster risk reduction (DRR) sensitive heritage conservation in the Himalayas’. The Himalayan states of India are home to a lot of heritage sites and structures, which include palaces, temples (gompas), monasteries, stupas and old neighbour…
"We have too many structures with poor building standard. We have too many structures in poor soil. We have no contingency plan. We have little preparedness. We cannot help ourselves much in times of need,” said United Nations International Strategy's regional coordinatior for Asia Pacific, Jerry Velasquez, expressing deep concern about a potentially ma…
Vice Mayor Alfredo Arquillano of San Francisco town, Camotes Islands, was selected to lead town mayors implement the '10 essentials for making cities resilient', part of the world disaster reduction campaign, signed last January but the Regional Disaster Coordinating Council in Central Visayas (RDCC-7) says that they lack disaster reduction and manageme…
"I think the critical thing is to support countries building the maximum resilience which is possible for these disasters" said Helen Clark, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) head in an interview with ABC Radio Australia, on reconstruction efforts in Pakistan and the recent devastating earthquake in New Zealand.