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The Government of Canada recognizes the often-devastating impacts flooding can have on the lives of Canadians and believes in supporting communities as they pull together to recover from natural disasters.
Today, Minister of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness, the Honourable Ralph Goodale, spoke with other federal ministers and provincial minis…
New pilot program will help build infrastructure that can withstand extreme weather
BRACEBRIDGE — The Ontario Government is putting people first by ensuring communities across the province are protected from future extreme weather damage by funding a new pilot program.
The Municipal Disaster Recovery Assistance (MDRA) program provides financ…
By Anu Jogesh
Exactly a year ago on Tuesday, heavy rains off the southeast coast of India set off a chain of events that resulted in one of the costliest disasters of 2015. Floods ravaged parts of Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh and Puducherry between November and December last year. The city of Chennai was the hardest hit.
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Better preparing Solomon Islanders for future disasters, and building resilience, is an important part of recovery planning, the government has recognised.
Risk-resilient recovery planning is now an official function of the Ministry of Development Planning and Aid Coordination (MDPAC), which last month formally integrated a disaster Recovery Coordinati…
By Robert Reid and Ivan Bruce
To celebrate World Environment Day, hundreds of Freetonians came together to plant a tree in honor of the more than 1,000 people killed and missing after devastating landslides and floods tore through Freetown less than a year ago. The landslide and flood waters ripped through the capital city with tremendous energy, destr…
By Laura Huffman
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The city is already betting big with its Bayou Greenways 2020 project, which will restore 3,000 acres of land along its bayous, creating parks and trails. The Houston Flood Mitigation Consortium has suggested that slowing water down with natural infrastructure should be a priority and open space be preserved.…
The 2013 Southern Alberta flood caused significant social and economic disruption, and unprecedented damages. Since then, The City of Calgary has embarked on a journey from recovery to resiliency.
“Calgarians demonstrated extraordinary resilience during and after the devastating flood of 2013,” says Mayor Nenshi. “In the five years since, building a fl…
By Forbes Tompkins and Evan Chapman
While the full extent of damage caused in the past two months by hurricanes Florence and Michael is still being calculated, initial estimates suggest Florence is one of the 10 costliest hurricanes on record and marked the 12th 1,000-year rainfall event the country has suffered since the beginning of 20…
ESA and the Asian Development Bank have joined forces to help the Indonesian government use satellite information to guide the redevelopment following the earthquake and tsunami that devastated the provincial capital of Palu and surroundings last year.
On 28 September 2018, the Indonesian island of Sulawesi was struck by a 7.5 magnitude earthquake. Th…
By Silvia Danielak
Local government and humanitarian actors are faced with tough choices of prioritising, managing and balancing resources, locations and constituencies.
Following heavy rains in November 2016, flash floods washed through the Setswetla informal settlement adjacent to Alexandra in Johannesburg. The floods destroyed several dozen ho…