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Manizales has become a global reference for disaster risk reduction. On the walls of the Colombian Geological Survey office, a dozen plasma screens relay seismic activity, satellite imagery and webcam footage of the nearby volcano. With nearly 150 sensors and data points, Ruiz is one of the most closely monitored volcanoes in the w…
The Board of Directors of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) has approved a loan and grant package totaling $53 million to promote growth in and around Phuentsholing by developing a township area adjoining the city protected by new defenses against floods and riverbank erosion.
“Erosion and annual flooding are holding back the growth of Phuentsholing, wh…
Freetown is the capital and the nerve center of Sierra Leone. It is projected to welcome more than 535,000 residents in the next decade. Yet, despite its national importance, the city has become crowded, underserviced and vulnerable to natural hazards. It is neither delivering on its economic potential nor is it providing its citizens the services they…
This book is intended to provide an overview of the concept of ecosystem approach to disaster risk reduction (Eco-DRR), natural resource management and disaster linkages, incorporating Eco-DRR concepts in various phases of disaster management, including post disaster recovery in wide range of human and natural environmental settings. The case studies co…
This study examines the interlinkages between climate change, disaster risk, and the urban poor, underscoring four key messages: (1) The urban poor are on the front line, particularly vulnerable to climate change and natural hazards. Exposure to risk is exacerbated by overcrowding living conditions, lack of adequate infrastructure and services. (2) City…
India is one of the most disaster prone countries, vulnerable to almost all natural and man made disasters. About 85% area is vulnerable to one or multiple disasters and about 57% area is in high seismic zone including the capital of the country. Disaster prevention involves engineering intervention in buildings and structures to make them strong enough…
This user-friendly handbook provides an overview of several 'natural' disasters that occurred in the world in 2005, 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…
In June 2020, Tropical Storm Amanda descended on El Salvador’s capital, San Salvador. Gale-force winds and torrential rains triggered more than 150 landslides and 20 major floods, tearing apart roads, electrical lines and almost 30,000 homes.Coffee farmer Hector Velasquez, whose land sits on the exposed slopes of San Salvador Volcano, overlooking the ci…
By Ashutosh Sharma
Bjammu - In April, scores of hillside homes in Fraswad and Shalnand villages in Jammu and Kashmir collapsed in a landslide amid heavy rains. Eighteen people died.
Not long ago, those same sloping hills had been covered in forest. But illegal tree harvesting by timber smugglers denuded the area, making it ripe for conversion to…
BANGKOK – The UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) launched an online Quick Risk Estimation (QRE) Tool to help small businesses and enterprises, including those in the informal sector, to better understand their exposure and vulnerability to disaster risks, especially in the context of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
Business resilience an…
As fears for the thousands of people missing following the recent floods and landslides in India's Uttarakhand state, environmentalists and experts pose the question: was it a man-made disaster? They attribute unplanned development and deforestation as a chief cause for the disaster. Times of India sites that a number of dams may have lead to hill slope…
President Mahinda Rajapaksa on Saturday visited the flood and landslide affected areas in the Matale District in the Central Province of Sri Lanka and assured to provide alternate lands in safe locations to the people who had lost their homes due to landslides. He inquired into the well-being of the affected families who have been sheltered in 14 welf…
Johannesburg (IRIN) - In 2010, five of the most devastating disasters, measured in loss of lives, goods and infrastructure, occurred in Asia. Investing in disaster planning could go a long way to keeping the number of casualties down, experts said.
"Disasters in Asia are largely due to floods and, in the second instance, storms. I think there is an awa…
The Jamaica Observer reports that in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, the Office of Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Management (ODPEM) has pointed to a number of disaster mitigation projects which may have prevented the loss of millions of dollars in property and may even have saved lives.
“From all indications, the communities did very well,” said…
This study focuses on the 2006 landslide tragedy in the Philippines, where an entire community, including its people, its productive assets, and its socio-cultural resources, was totally buried. It reports on the various levels of recovery that have been achieved among the provision of community services and facilities such as health, education, recreat…