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Displaying 15 of about 257 resultsNAIROBI/GENEVA, 13 February 2012 - In advance of critical rainfall forecasts for the Horn of Africa, the UN office for disaster risk reduction, UNISDR, today announced a partnership with the WMO-supported African Centre of Meteorological Applications for Development (ACMAD) to ensure rapid dissemination of weather updates to disaster managers.
Pedro Ba…
GENEVA, 6 June 2013 - The Head of UNISDR, Margareta Wahlström, today welcomed the emphasis placed on the links between poverty reduction and disaster risk reduction in the report of the High-Level Panel of Eminent Persons on the Post-2015 Development Agenda which identifies climate change as the main obstacle in the way of ending extreme poverty.
Ms. W…
This study analyses international financial flows to nine countries for the 18 months after recent crises—drought, flood, cyclone, earthquake, and epidemic. It complements the Centre’s analysis of funding flows to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic, exploring similarities and differences for funding flows for natural hazards. International funding of…
When Cyclone Gabrielle hit New Zealand in February, it left a trail of destruction across the North Island. At least 11 people died, and more than 10,000 were displaced. Bridges were washed out (35 in the Hastings district alone), roads closed and communications cut.
With potable water and wastewater systems damaged and land covered in silt,…
The research aim of this study is to identify socio-demographic groups vulnerable to floods and whether the groups vulnerable to floods and pandemics overlap or are disjoint. Several European countries were affected by severe floods in 2021. At the same time, despite the deployment of vaccines, Europe was the COVID-19 pandemic's epicenter several times…
The United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA) and the Centre for Space Science and Technology Education for Asia and the Pacific (Affiliated to the United Nations) are launching a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) on “Geospatial Applications for Disaster Risk Management”. This MOOC is a free and flexible online training programme available…
Over the years the need has surfaced for a more Caribbean focused conference on all possible disaster hazards. This conference seeks to bring together government agencies, academic institutions, and private sector for information exchange, dialogue and development of methods and practice to reduce the harmful impacts of hazards and disasters in the Cari…
Exercise overview
The Disaster Resistant Communities Group has undertaken an effort to develop, facilitate and evaluate a series of disaster exercises for neighborhoods entitled "Formidable Footprint - A Neighborhood Tabletop Exercise".
Exercise scenarios
The scenarios for the Formidable Footprint National Neighborhood Exercise Series will include:…
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…
This year’s monsoon has resulted in intense floods and landslides with many communities displaced as a result. Simultaneously the Bangladesh population is severely impacted by the Coronavirus pandemic, both its impact on people’s health (by 24th August 3,941 deaths from Covid-19 have been reported) and finances. Many people have lost their incomes as a…
Since 1975, the Natural Hazards Center at the University of Colorado has hosted the Annual Natural Hazards Research and Applications Workshop. Today, the Workshop brings together international, federal, state, and local mitigation and emergency management officials and planning professionals; representatives of nonprofit, private sector, and humani…
Disaster not only causes loss of life, damages to environment and properties, but has immediate and progressive impact on animals as well, resulting in animal deaths, suffering and economic losses. Hundreds of thousands of animals are affected during disasters such as drought, cyclones, earthquakes, landslides, floods and epidemics. A holistic approac…
The overall goal of the symposium is to facilitate the exchange and updating of information on disaster risk reduction associated with climate variability and change. It will bring together key stakeholders that will, in part, integrate and forge linkages towards enhanced national capacity to reduce disaster risks.
Kenya is highly vulnerable and expose…
Aim:
To provide Field facilitators and other senior managers with skills, concepts and guidelines to train, and deal with emerging disasters and hazards (including climate change) that may affect the outputs of their projects.
Objectives:
By the end of the course, participants will be able to:
- Understand and apply the principles and practices of c…
This event is organized by The General Inspectorate for Emergency Situations as a Hyogo Framework for Action (HFA) national focal point and also as an integrator of the national emergency management system in collaboration with Prefecture Institution of Valcea County, Romania.
The main objectives of this seminar are:
-raising awareness within communit…