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Displaying 120 of about 655 resultsThe International Recovery Platform Herald (IRP Herald) is the periodic newsletter of the International Recovery Platform. The IRP Herald reports on IRP activities and serves as the knowledge report for the annual International Recovery Forum, as well as recovery-related content from other major conferences.
IRP Herald Volume 30 is the knowledge report…
This post-disaster needs assessment provides estimates of the damages and losses, and the costs for reconstruction and recovery following the 2009 floods in Burkina Faso.
The assessment concluded that the floods caused the following negative impacts on the areas affected: the human toll was 119,356 victims, 46 deaths, 63 injured, and 1 person not…
The normative dimensions of flood harm in flood risk management (FRM) have become salient in a milieu of extreme flood events. In this article, two types of flood harm will be discussed. They are namely, risk harm and outcome harm. Whilst risk harm suggests that risk imposition by structural FRM measures is a type of harm that can increase vulnerability…
Register HereTimeThursday 16th November between 13:00 and 13:45 UK time (UTC+1).AboutLunch and Learn: Morocco Earthquake and Libya Floods. Learn more about the role technical response supports affected people as they recover and rebuild from disaster.At this event we ask how does technical response support affected people as they recover and rebuild? J…
The increasing magnitude and frequency of high-impact weather events means some communities have entered near-permanent states of recovery, leaving them more vulnerable to future disasters.Massey University PhD candidate Anna-Kay Spaulding Agbenyegah hopes to address these issues by finding out how different communities recover from landslides and flood…
On 18 August 2008, the Kosi River burst through its eastern embankment about 13 km upstream of the Kosi Barrage in Nepal, 8 km north of the Indian border. At its peak, the intensity of water force went up to 166,000 cubic feet per second (cusec) compared with the regular 25,744 cusec, running straight down south through a new course 15-20 km wide and 15…
Hurricane Maria reminded the world of the fragility of Puerto Rico’s housing and the critical infrastructure that supports housing and residents. This training series is built upon The Keep Safe Guide to Building Resilience in Island Communities developed by Enterprise Community Partners in partnership with the Puerto Rico Builders Association…
This publication reviews a project aimed at supporting the immediate life-saving basic needs of 3,667 Cambodian households through the provision of unconditional cash transfers, improved access to safe drinking water, sanitation, and hygiene practices, as well as reestablishing a decent, clean, and safe learning environment for boys and girls…
This paper discusses how resilience is widely seen as an important attribute of coastal systems and, as a concept, is increasingly prominent in policy documents. However, there are conflicting ideas on what constitutes resilience and its operationalisation as an overarching principle of coastal management remains limited. In this paper, it shows how res…
When disaster threatens, the first hours are crucial. European researchers have developed an automated system to provide early detection, forecasting, and warning of natural disasters such as floods and wildfires.
Floods, forest fires, and other natural disasters take lives, harm the environment, and cause billions of euros of damage every year – €50 b…
Floods from heavy rains across West Africa have damaged infrastructure and destroyed the homes or crops of up to 130,000 people, and caused more than 20 deaths, according to Hervé Ludovic De Lys, head of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA).
And the toll is expected to rise. “We are now reaching the most critical phase of…
The 'Orissa flood resilient shelter program - 2008' is a strategy designed by the non-governmental organization, Sustainable Environment and Ecological Development Society (SEEDS), India, and its partner Christian-Aid, for the purpose of rehabilitating and helping communities build resilience against floods in Orissa, India.
Washington – The World Bank Board today approved a $250 million Jhelum and Tawi Flood Recovery Project for reconstruction and recovery support to flood-affected areas in which public infrastructure and livelihoods were impacted severely. It will also strengthen the capacity of the state government to respond to and better manage natural disasters in the…
Lilongwe - Administrator for the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), Helen Clark, has advised Government to ensure resilient recovery and reconstruction of infrastructure destroyed by the flood disaster earlier this year.
Speaking at Bingu International Conference Center (BICC) in Lilongwe during the official launch of the Post Disaster Needs…
Startling results from a new report out of the Intact Centre on Climate Adaptation at the University of Waterloo find all 10 provinces and Yukon are not as prepared for floods as they could be.
The report, Climate Change and the Preparedness of Canadian Provinces and Yukon to Limit Potential Flood Damage, surveyed 103 government representatives across…