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Displaying 15 of about 21 resultsA fully funded 3-year PhD position in geotechnical engineering at the University of Salerno (Italy) is available within the doctoral course “Risk and sustainability in civil, environmental and construction engineering”. The PhD will start in November 2015.
The geotechnical engineering research group seeks a highly motivated candidate for a PhD project…
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This Conference aims to bring under one roof specialists from the academia and industry on earthquake engineering, landslides, floods, tsunamis and hurricanes.
This conference provides the opportunity to watch and listen how the scientific community is coping with in their fields of expertise; this is the essence of cross-fertilization of knowl…
Washington – Following floods that devastated Malawi in January 2015, the World Bank Group’s Board of Executive Directors today approved US$80 million to help the country reconstruct critical public infrastructure, restore agricultural livelihoods, enhance food security, and improve the Government of Malawi’s disaster response and recovery capacities.…
Otawa, Canada - The ministry of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness of Canada launched the first call for proposals within the CAD$ 200 million (approx. US$ 165 million) National Disaster Mitigation Program (NDMP), as part of the Government’s commitment to build safer and more resilient communities.
In recognition of increasing disaster risks and…
By Greg St. Martin
An interdisciplinary team of Northeastern researchers has received a three-year, $1.1 million grant from the National Science Foundation to develop a decision framework for designing buildings that are both resilient and sustainable in the face of multiple hazards—specifically, earthquakes, flooding, and high winds.…
Dar es Salaam - In the face of a growing threat from extreme weather, Tanzania's parliament has adopted a law to help authorities cope with emergencies and shield vulnerable communities from disaster risks.
The new legislation, which tries to bridge gaps in the country's ability to deal with both natural and human-made disasters, creates a new agency t…
Colombo - The Government of India in June 2010 announced that it would construct 50,000 houses as part of its post-conflict rehabilitation efforts. The Project is being implemented as full grant assistance amounting to USD 250 million from the Government of India, making it one of the largest grant assistance projects ever undertaken by the Government o…
Science and Innovation Minister Steven Joyce today announced $3.2 million in funding for 13 new research projects under the Natural Hazards Research Platform.
The Research Platform was created in September 2009 by the Government to provide secure, long-term funding for natural hazard research, and to help research providers and end-users work more clos…
By Colin Quinn
The first time I visited Pemba, Mozambique to begin a project that would help the port city adapt to climate change, I was not prepared for what I saw.
After a few days of severe rain last year, neighborhoods resembled wetlands, streets had turned into rivers, and a large piece of the main coastal road had fallen into the ocean. Reside…
President Barack Obama has signed a disaster declaration for Oklahoma, making funds available for state, tribal and local recovery efforts for the areas affected by the severe winter storms and flooding that impacted the state in late November, reports KFOR-TV.
President Barack Obama’s action makes federal funding available to state, tribal and eligibl…
Manila – The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has approved assistance of over $220 million to help Pakistan rebuild and upgrade roads, bridges and other high-priority infrastructure damaged by the devastating 2014 floods.
“Pakistan is highly dependent on agriculture and prone to floods and other extreme weather related-events like the current severe heat w…
By Saleem Shaikh and Sughra Tunio
Sehar, Pakistan - When flood waters four feet deep inundated this village in southern Pakistan for a month this summer, 80 percent of the 251 thatched houses remained safely above water.
For years, residents of this remote village in the highly flood-prone Layyah district, had seen their homes repeatedly inundated.
F…
By Saleem Shaikh and Sughra Tunio
Bagrot, Pakistan - For wheat farmer Noor Hussain, it was "no less than a miracle" that the lives of nearly 900 people and hundreds of cattle were saved by evacuating them from Chirah Bala village hours before a glacial lake burst its banks last May.
Hussain, 45, was busy weeding his land in the Bagrot valley when youn…
By Alisa Tang
Ayutthaya, Thailand - Nestled among hundreds of identical white and brown two-storey homes crammed in this neighbourhood for factory workers is a house with a trick - one not immediately apparent from its green-painted drywall and grey shade panels.
Hidden under the house and its wraparound porch are steel pontoons filled with Styrofoam.…
By Megan Rowling
Barcelona - Tucked away beneath courts for playing the bowling game pétanque, its entrance part-concealed by hanging plants, lies a cavernous concrete tank for collecting floodwater.
The underground tank in Barcelona's northern Horta district is the size of 19 Olympic swimming pools, and three or four times a year it partly fills up d…