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Displaying 90 of about 259 resultsThe Office of Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Management (ODPEM) is warning that the practice of erecting retaining walls as a solution to landslides, may not be the best option.
Project Manager for the Community Based Landslide Risk Reduction Mitigation Project (CBLRRMP), at ODPEM, Kirk Frankson, pointed out that retaining walls actually make the…
In his counterpoint for the Japan Times, Roger Pulvers questions what can be done to limit catastrophic destruction such as the Great East Japan Earthquake, the tsunami it triggered and the subsequent meltdown crises at the Fukushima nuclear power plant, from assaulting any region of this country again. He points at the blind national faith in economic…
Le Plan de prévention des risques de mouvements de terrains, PPRMT, est une nouvelle réglementation actuellement préparée par l'Etat visant à encadrer les constructions dans les secteurs sensibles où les terrains sont très argileux. En d'autres termes, ce règlement a pour but d'éviter les dommages causés aux bâtiments par les variations du sous-sol, rap…
Torrential rains have caused extensive flooding, destroying homes and crops in Rwanda's western and northern regions, according to officials.
"The situation is pathetic; we are trying to secure relief aid for the affected people," Penelope Kantarama, governor of Western Province, said on 3 October. The rains submerged more than 500 homes, destroyed abo…
University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida
The devastation caused by Haiti’s January 12 earthquake underscores the need to operationalize the principle of disaster risk reduction and to incorporate disaster mitigation into all aspects of reconstruction. Rebuilding efforts must not only focus on providing shelter and services but also on strengthening t…
2009 Sasakawa award call for nominations now open
Nominations are now open for the 2009 Sasakawa Award for Disaster Reduction. Nominees should be individuals and institutions from around the world who have contributed to building the resilience of nations and communities to natural hazards through innovative practices and outstanding initiatives. Nomin…
North Vancouver District has received the United Nations Sasakawa Award for Disaster Risk Reduction. The award is given to an individual or organization for outstanding and internationally recognized action that contributes to building the resilience of nations and communities to disasters. The award was presented on May 12 during the Global Platform fo…
Press release - CARE at the Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction in Geneva
As an international conference on disaster risk reduction gets underway in Geneva, CARE International warns that the increasing number of humanitarian disasters are eroding the coping ability of poor people and therefore undermining their ability to escape poverty. “Pove…
Kiryandongo - Those affected by a devastating landslide in eastern Uganda in 2010 are among 10,000 people a year living in disaster-prone areas set to benefit from a five-year resettlement scheme due to start in 2012.
“We are going to resettle all people at risk in the mountainous areas,” said John Martin Owor, commissioner for disaster preparedness an…
More than 800 lives were lost after heavy rains in January 2011 caused mudslides in Teresópolis, Rio de Janeiro state. 'Our cities are very insecure because of the failure to apply urban planning' says Celso Carvalho, the national secretary of urban programmes, in a report by Natalia Viana for the Guardian UK.
Saint Bernard, Southern Leyte and Maragusan, Compostela Valley, two of the most high-risk communities for floods and landslides mark this year’s International Disaster Risk Reduction Day by planting mangroves along the coast, planting fruit trees along the river bank and planting rubber trees in watershed area. They also conducted separated fora to bet…
This document reports on a situation assessment of two informal communities in the outskirts of Guatemala City, Guatemala. It assesses the potential for developing an urban disaster risk reduction program within the metropolitan’s precarious settlements - informal settlements along the steep embankments of ravines. The report includes 65 household surve…
This publications gathers multitude of inputs and studies from SAARC countries, it provides a snapshot of landslides in the SAARC region and considers also the mounting new threats posed by climate change, glacial lake outburst floods and earthquake induced landslides. The papers it contains highlight core issues connected with the multifaceted aspects…
By Carina Lakovits
For the first time in history, more people live in cities than in rural areas. Although cities hold the promise of a better future, the reality is that many cities cannot live up to expectations. Too often, cities lack the resources to provide even the most basic services to their inhabitants, and cities all…
Imagine you live in a city that floods, sometime for weeks, after extreme rainfalls.
Imagine you live in that flooded city, where you and thousands of your neighbors must find a place to stay till the water has receded, and you finally can get back home, with the fear of finding it devastated.
The city of Trinidad is a place like this, located in Boli…