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Displaying 105 of about 113 resultsThe NFC is a yearly event that is part educational, part professional, and part social, offering activities for anyone involved in the mitigation field. It also serves as a meeting ground for various stakeholders who do not otherwise get a chance to interact and work face to face.
In addition to the workshops, exhibit hall, and keynote speakers, their…
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Coastal zones, broadly defined as the region within 200 miles from coast, are where 75% of the world’s population lives. These regions include nearly all of the most populated cities in the world (New York City, Shanghai, Sao Paulo, Los Angeles, Miami, Tampa, Washington D.C., Mexico City, etc.) and the entire state of Florida; and are face…
Designing the territory adaptation capacities against natural risks has become an essential issue. Building adapted urban networks and cities that will face risk events induces to think this adaptation in a long term perspective. This adaptation capacity has to be done taking into account the spatial shapes of the specific environments, in particular th…
The topics of lectures are listed bellow:
What is disaster management? What are the basic terms used in this discipline (hazard, vulnerability, risk, mitigation, reparedness, response, recovery etc)?
Understanding earthquake hazard
Understanding tsunami hazard
Cyclones/typhoons/hurricane/tropical storms
Coastal flooding/sea level rise
Understand…
This paper presents German views on disaster risk management for sustainable development. It contains a section on linking theory and practice, which covers risk analysis, disaster preparedness, disaster prevention and mitigation, and aid and reconstruction. Supporting case studies from several countries are provided.
The German Government's framework…
This case study highlights the extent to which Practical Action
Sri Lanka’s housing intervention reflects a climate smart disaster risk management (CSDRM) approach and whether this has led to an opening of inclusive spaces and citizen engagement on disaster risk management (DRM) in a post-conflict setting. The investigation highlights that Practical Act…
Recurrent flooding is one of the most serious problems that Senegal has been facing over the last years, making it a serious concern for the Government. At the end of August 2009, heavy rainfall once again caused serious flooding in Senegal, particularly in Dakar but also in the rest of the country. The flooding was not caused by exceptionally heavy rai…
The United Nations is helping Tajikistan, a mountainous country prone to natural disasters, enhance its capacity to withstand catastrophes such as floods, avalanches and earthquakes which often destroy homes in the Central Asian nation.
Through its Disaster Risk Management Programme, the UN Development Programme (UNDP) is supporting the country’s Commi…
Andrew Gully reports for Agence France Presse on how the the survivors of the Haitian earthquake are now preparing themselves for the risk of major flooding.
"We have time. We don't have much, but we have some time to prepare better and inform people of what their choices are" said Kristen Knutson, from for the UN's Office for the Coordination of Human…
Press release:
London - ActionAid is providing food, water and temporary shelters to thousands of people affected by Hurricane Sandy in Haiti.
Preventing a return of cholera, providing shelter and helping farmers whose crops have been destroyed will be the main priorities for ActionAid in the coming days and weeks.
The hurricane killed 52 people in H…
A collaborative group of over a dozen leading international and national humanitarian aid agencies prepared a report on the floods that affected over nine million people in Pakistan in 2011. In his opinion for Dawn, Naseer Memon highlights the need of food, shelter, drinking water, sanitation facilities and medicine that remains in the absence of a robu…
This book, consisting of two parts, the theory of Total Disaster Risk Management (TDRM) and good practices for disaster risk management, was compiled for the purpose of promoting TDRM as a comprehensive approach to disaster risk reduction worldwide.
It was published for the UN World Conference on Disaster Reduction (held in Kobe, Japan 18-22 January 20…
As General Assembly holds thematic debate, Secretary-General urges governments to integrate disaster risk reduction into development agendas
Faced with socio-economic fallout from increasingly frequent and severe disasters, Governments must invest in disaster risk reduction and weave it into their development agendas in order to save more lives and bui…
By Ken Ward Jr, Staff Writer
Obama administration emergency managers are proposing to toughen the requirements for federally funded construction projects to try to make flood-prone communities more resilient to the increased risks of flooding expected to be caused by global warming.
The Federal Emergency Management on Monday proposed the rules, which…
By Eileen Fretz, Flood Policy Director
Soon after Hurricane Sandy hit, devastating much of the Northeast, politicians and experts took to the press to urge the government to help communities rebuild “better”. But what exactly does rebuilding “better” mean?
American Rivers offered some basic suggestions:
- Rebuild in the right places by protecting and…