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Displaying 75 of about 551 resultsMapelcroft's Natural Disasters Economic Loss Index evaluation places Haiti and Mozambique as the world's most exposed countries for economic losses due to natural hazards from 1980-2010. The Index measures the global economic impact in terms of risk to property and infrastructure of disasters such as earthquakes, floods, droughts, landslides, epidemics,…
A recent workshop held by the department of Humanitarian and Social Affairs of ECOWAS aimed at building the capacity of West African countries to disasters by the integration of disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation into development agendas and sectoral programmes in the sub-region.
Recommendations included the need to strengthen ECOWAS…
La prolifération des sargasses apparait comme une nouvelle menace en lien avec les changements climatiques. Localiser et quantifier l’impact des sargasses avec une app smartphone et une cartographie sur le web contribue à gérer et atténuer les impacts et permet à chacun de contribuer aux Objectifs de Développement Durable. SIGNALERT met à disposition so…
By Joydeep Gupta
As climate change leads to the flooding of whole countries, a climate passport may allow the most distressed to settle in countries that have been largely responsible for the impact
Nearly half a million people lost their countries during World War 1 and had to use the Nansen Passport till they could get citizenship of…
Small island developing States (SIDS) in the Pacific continue to be hit by multiple disasters that can arrive in quick succession – often with cascading impacts that transcend national boundaries. In February 2018, cyclone Gita, for example battered many small islands developing States in the South Pacific and as well as large parts of Tonga, affecting…
By Leah James and Courtney Welton-Mitchell
Mental health can be an important factor in solving the puzzle of why people don’t prepare for disasters. Whether one is struggling with depression, anxiety, or trauma-related symptoms stemming from past disasters, a person’s mental state can determine how they engage—or don’t engage—in preparedness activities…
Towards a regional platform for their financial and institutional sustainability:
This report describes the background for the flood early warning systems (Flood EWS) in the Central American Isthmus and the Dominican Republic, commenced in 1995, and highlights the need for a harmonized methodology for designing and implementing the systems. It reco…
This fact sheet presents a project that supports local population in planning and implementing reconstruction in the aftermath of heavy rain in Haiti and the Dominican Republic.
Disaster Risk Management Working Paper Series, no. 5.
This paper examines the ways in which natural resources management and environmental degradation affect natural hazard risk, and makes a preliminary assessment of the importance of such linkages and the extent of their incorporation into disaster mitigation strategies and activities. The analysis is…
Vulnerability assessment of freshwater resources to environmental change: Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna River Basin; Helmand River Basin; Indus River Basin
This report is one of the primary outputs of the Vulnerability Assessment of Freshwater Resources to Environmental Change project, and presents a situation analysis with regard to the vulnerability of w…
This user-friendly handbook provides an overview of several 'natural' disasters that occurred in the world in 2007, and contains good practices submitted by ADRC member countries to share knowledge among relevant stakeholders in order to contribute to global disaster risk reduction, in regard to the progression on the implementation of the Hyogo Framewo…
Port Salut (Haiti) - With Haiti's rainy season looming, efforts are being stepped up to improve real-time monitoring in the flood-prone Port-à-Piment watershed in the south of the country to reduce the disaster risk for local communities.
Last October, major floods in the area left some communities completely isolated and forced to rely on emergency de…
Bangkok (UN ESCAP Strategic Communications and Advocacy Section) – The 2011 floods that caused unprecedented devastation across South-East Asia have highlighted the need for stepped up investment in disaster risk reduction to protect social and economic assets, top government officials from the subregion agreed at a United Nations forum here today.
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"Australia is committed to helping Fiji prepare for and respond to natural disasters," asserts the Australian High Commission in the Fiji Times. The article describes Australia's work with the Fiji National Disaster Management Office and the Fiji Council of Churches to help make local communities more resilient and better prepared for natural disasters.…
Dili - Timor-Leste continues to invest in measures to minimise the effects of disasters, the United Nations top disaster risk reduction official said during a three day visit to the country.
“Timor-Leste is working hard to respond more effectively to natural disasters,” said the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Disaster Risk Reductio…