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Displaying 15 of about 42 results‘Settlement Planning & Shelter in emergencies’ is a four-day residential course run by RedR India that helps you understand strategies and practices that are intrinsic to the shelter sector and humanitarian sector in general. The course is one of RedR’s Trainings, which aims to improve the effectiveness of specialist and non specialist in emergency…
The project Sheltering From a Gathering Storm has generated information on the costs and benefits of climate resilient shelter designs. This information is purposed to contribute to transformative changes necessary to make communities more resilient to future disasters.
Using cost-benefit analysis, this applied research project has produced outpu…
This paper synthesizes collaborative research results on the economics of alternative strategies for building resilience of housing systems in response to current conditions and projected changes in climate. Research undertaken in Vietnam, India and Pakistan demonstrates cost-effective solutions for reducing risk from flooding, extreme storm events…
On the basis of a report examining the government's readiness for anticipated climate changes in the coming years, the Ministry of Environmental Protection announced a comprehensive national plan of action for what it called, "adaptation to climate change". According to Globes, the plan would include the adaptation of buildings to weather climate change…
By Chris Arsenault
From how concrete is mixed for road construction, to roofing standards enabling buildings to withstand stronger storms and plans to help homeowners manage increased flooding, Canada's building rules are being rewritten due to climate change, according to briefing notes for a senior government official seen by CBC News.
If no ch…
By Sotiris Vardoulakis
Just last month my colleague Kevin Fenton outlined how critical good quality housing is to good public health.
In a blog he championed the multi-faceted work being undertaken by PHE to reduce the impacts of poor, unsuitable housing on physical and mental health as a vehicle to reduce health inequalities and the as…
This book was produced to mark the end of the International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction (IDNDR), a United Nations initiative to reduce the negative effects of natural disasters.
This volume communicates solutions to the problems associated with natural disasters, stimulating discussion and improvements in methods of protecting people and prop…
By Ran Boydell
Climate change will affect every aspect of our lives – including the buildings we live and work in. Most people in the US, for example, spend about 90% of their time indoors. Climate change is fundamentally altering the environmental conditions in which these buildings are designed to function.
Architects and engineers design buildings…
Government must act now to improve the quality of UK homes to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and to safeguard our comfort, health and wellbeing as the climate changes, the Committee on Climate Change (CCC) says today.
In a new report ‘UK housing: Fit for the future?’ the CCC warns that the UK’s legally-binding climate change targets will not…
This report will attempt to catalogue and briefly discuss the immediate medical and long-term health effects of a natural disaster. Other topics such as the disruption of a community’s critical infrastructure, vulnerable groups within populations, and common misconceptions in disaster response will also be reviewed. Finally, mitigation and loss reductio…
This study looks at the risk of damage to property from drought induced soil subsidence in Europe. It describes the phenomena emphasizing that property losses from soil movements have eclipsed the costs of most other natural hazards and now reach the same damage levels as floods.
It stresses that as incidents of soil subsidence increase in frequency an…
Ministère de l'Ecologie, du Développement Durable, de Transports et du Logement - communiqué de presse
Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet, ministre de l’Écologie, du Développement durable, des Transports et du Logement, a présenté aujourd’hui, en présence de Jean JOUZEL, Vice-Président du Groupe d’Experts Intergouvernemental sur l’Evolution du Climat (GIEC), l…
By Vicki Ekstrom
MIT Energy Initiative/Joint Program on Global Change
Just days after President Obama called for action on climate change in his second inaugural address, members of Mass. Gov. Deval Patrick’s administration joined energy and environment researchers at MIT to discuss strategies for adapting to climate change. The panel discussion on Jan…
Several major catastrophes in 2010 resulted in substantial losses and an exceptionally high number of fatalities. The overall picture last year was dominated by an accumulation of severe earthquakes to an extent seldom experienced in recent decades. The high number of weather-related natural catastrophes and record temperatures both globally and in diff…
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…