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Displaying 60 of about 259 resultsThis paper analyzes the root causes and the key triggering factors of the 2022 Petrópolis landslide disaster in Rio de Janeiro state, Brazil by assessing the spatial relationship of landslide occurrence with various environmental factors. Rainfall data were retrieved from 1977 to 2022 (a combination of ground weather stations and the Climate Hazards Gro…
The Anticipation Hub is among the guest editors of a special issue of Hydrology Research entitled ‘Learning from the Floods of 2021: Combining Data, Models and Communication to Improve Preparedness for Extreme Events in a Changing Climate’.
We strongly encourage the anticipatory action community to contribute to this special issue with their knowledge…
The increasing need to protect civilian infrastructure and industrial facilities against unintentional loads arising from accidental impact and explosion events as well as a terrorist attack is reflected in the sustained interest in the SUSI meetings over three decades. While advances have been made over this period, nevertheless many challenges remain,…
Overview
Though landslides are a natural occurrence, they can be triggered by ill-conceived development and settlements in high-risk areas. In many developing countries, construction of roads in river basins and mountainous areas causes landslides and leads to erosion and sedimentation.
Mountainous areas make up 70% of Japan, making it highly suscepti…
The first maps covering the whole of Switzerland and detailing areas at risk of flooding have just been compiled and released by the Federal Environment Office and reinsurance firm Swiss Re.
Individual cantons are currently drawing up maps to indicate areas at risk of various hazards including including floods, avalanches, landslides and rock fall. App…
Manila - President Benigno Aquino III on Thursday ordered the Cabinet to draw up a comprehensive disaster preparedness plan in time for the rainy season in June.
Following a Cabinet meeting in Malacañang, the President wants the road map formally adopted for implementation before the onset of the rainy season in June.
The plan may include advisory sys…
Nine years after the tragedy, Saint Bernard still grapples with the challenges associated with rebuilding, reports Rappler. Although in 2006, like most other municipalities, it had no organized disaster risk reduction and management office, but two years after the tragedy, Saint Bernard was awarded a recognition of the best DRRM efforts in the country.…
By Suman Kumar Karna
Ways of coping with monsoon floods and landslides in the middle of the COVID-19 response will have to be entirely different in approach, action, and delivery. Monsoon is just at the doorstep. Few towns and cities are already submerged. The coming days are going to be more tough and cruel. This year we are in no different condition.…
Por Edgardo Ayala
La ciudad de San Salvador se levantó a los pies del volcán del mismo nombre, y el riesgo de deslizamientos que causan tragedias está siempre presente, como el ocurrido en septiembre de 1982, en el que murieron unas 500 personas en la capital de El Salvador. Convertirla en una ciudad esponja es la nueva iniciativa para reducir el impac…
Vacancy number: ISDR/I/07/2010
Background
The International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (ISDR) is a multi-disciplinary and multi-stakeholder platform to enable societies to increase their resilience to natural, technological and environmental disasters and to reduce associated environmental, human, economic and social risk and losses. A range of U…
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…
The project “Improving urban resilience in Medellín through insurance protection for climate risks and natural disasters” is an international cooperation initiative established with the objective of improving the resilience of Medellín and its capacity to respond to natural disasters.The experiences of the project in responding to these challenges provi…
Geneva, 20 January 2012 – Speaking at France’s first-ever conference on hazards, the UN disaster risk reduction chief, Margareta Wahlström, yesterday commended the French government for its efforts to implement disaster risk reduction nationally, saying that the country could be a model for others in Europe.
Speaking in Bordeaux, at the National Confer…
Kobe, 22 December 2011 - UNISDR has organized an exchange visit between the Philippines and Japan, two of the countries worst-affected this year by a series of disasters ranging from a major earthquake which triggered a tsunami and a nuclear meltdown in Japan, and back-to-back typhoons in the case of the Philippines.
An eleven strong Filipino delegati…
CAIRO, 23 November 2011 – The League of Arab States (LAS) and UNISDR move one step closer to a plan of action on disaster risk reduction for the Arab region. The action plan is expected to be endorsed at the first-ever Regional Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction in the Arab region planned for 2012.
Holding a series of consultations with disaster risk…