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Displaying 15 of about 81 resultsThe three day Annual International Conference of the RGS-IBG attracts over 1,200 geographers from around the world.
Conference Chair: Chris Philo, University of Glasgow
Among the call for papers is: The role of security in disaster risk reduction for natural hazards.
The session aims to explore: What can we learn from studies in security to make…
This manual is the first concrete step in education designed for the entire population, and was created in order to enable citizens to easily access basic information useful for behavior in emergency situations. It is simple and provides basic guidelines and rules of conduct in any type of danger. It lists numerous examples of conduct in emergency situa…
This second edition of the Handbook aims to foster an integrated and coordinated approach to homeland security, emergency management, and enterprise resilience. Chapter 49—The Hyogo Framework for Action (HFA)—was written by Margareta Wahlström, the Special Representative of the Secretary-General (SRSG) for Disaster Risk Reduction.
The Handbook has sev…
This report describes country’s disaster risks and natural hazards, such as flood, earthquake, storm, drought and wildfire, and presents governmental and institutional structures responsible for disaster management in Mongolia.
The report discusses major activities and accomplishments in disaster reduction during the International Decade for Natural Di…
This review analyses some of the major events and trends related to natural disasters and humanitarian disaster response and looks at the experience of developed countries with natural disasters in 2011. Highlighting evidences from the Japanese earthquake-tsunami-nuclear accident, the earthquake in Christchurch, New Zealand, floods in Australia, and tor…
This document provides guidance which States may recommend to operators and regulatory authorities where volcanic ash contamination may be a hazard for flight operations. The underlying assumption used is that the individual operator is responsible for such operations under the oversight of their respective State regulatory authority. The guiding princi…
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, March/April 2012, 68(2) pp. 9–21:
This article presents the findings of an independent investigation panel, established by the Rebuild Japan Initiative Foundation, to review how the government, the Tokyo Electric Power Company, and other relevant actors responded to the earthquake-tsunami-nuclear disaster that unfold…
This paper argues that the Fukushima plant would have withstood the tsunami had its design previously been upgraded in accordance with state-of-the-art safety approaches. It asserts that the analysis of past tsunami was insufficient and that Japan did not adequately prepare for the possibility of power failures at nuclear plants, while European countrie…
This report, commissioned by Greenpeace International, addresses the lessons that can be taken away from this catastrophe. It looks into fundamental questions regarding the end of the nuclear safety paradigm and draws some important conclusions. The first chapter documents how Japan found its emergency planning for a nuclear accident not being functiona…
This report analyses the top 10 risks in five categories - economic, environmental, geopolitical, societal and technological - and also highlights "X Factor" risks, the wild card threats which warrant more research, including a volcanic winter, cyber neotribalism and epigenetics, the risk that the way we live could have harmful, inheritable effects on o…
The purpose of the EU Stress Test was to analyse the security situation of all European nuclear power plants with regard to the lessons learned of Fukushima. This report presents the results for Switzerland’s participation in the EU Stress Test with respect to earthquakes, external flooding and the combination of both events, as well as the coolant supp…
The preparation of this National Progress Report has been undertaken within the framework of the biennial 2011-13 HFA Monitoring and Progress Review process, facilitated by UNISDR and ISDR System partners.
The progress report assesses current national strategic priorities with regard to the implementation of disaster risk reduction actions, and establi…
This report presents the institutional and legal framework for disaster risk reduction in Cameroon, and describes its common disaster risks and natural hazards, such as earthquake, flood and release of toxic gas. It outlines the strategies, plans, projects and activities related to disaster prevention and risk management.
The report provides an evaluat…
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today outlined five areas that deserve greater attention as the world community strives to ensure nuclear security, from curbing terrorism financing to stricter control over fissile materials.
“The prospect of nuclear terrorism threatens international security. We are united in our resolve to defuse this threat,” he said i…
AFP reports that a new Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) report admits TEPCO's role and responsibility in the Fukushima nuclear plan disaster, calling their admission an 'about-face' with regard to their ability to have reasonably prepared for the threat of tsunami following the Great East Japan earthquake in 2011.
"There was concern that if new, se…