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Displaying 90 of about 149 resultsThe government is working on a new manual for national disaster training to better cope with multiple natural disasters similar to the March 11 earthquake, tsunami and nuclear accidents in Japan, the home affairs ministry said Wednesday: "the manual will simulate the country being hit by one of the most likely types of compound disasters such as a massi…
Government review concludes UK's nuclear industry is broadly safe but lessons from Fukushima must be implemented, says the Guardian. The review, ordered by the government following the Japanese experience, pinpointed critical areas for concern, including risks associated with flooding, the layout of plants, and the state of preparedness for emergencies.
It pays to be well prepared, particularly where natural hazards and disaster risk reduction were concerned, the top United Nations official responsible for mitigating disaster risks worldwide, said today.
Addressing correspondents at a Headquarters press conference on the upcoming one-year anniversary of the Great East Japan Earthquake on March 11 2011…
This annual report contains an inventory of the major disasters that occured in Cameroon in 2008 and an analysis of the government's civil protection policy.
Proceeding volume of the National Workshop, 30 September-01 October 2008, New Delhi:
This document on chemical disaster management contains detailed descriptive lectures, talks of holistic disaster management (DM) framework, integration of chemical risk to holisitc and multi-hazard risk management, site assessment, legal framework, district level DM pl…
The IAEA has an important mandate and is engaged in a broad array of activities on issues of disaster risk reduction as this relates to the many peaceful applications of atomic energy, said IAEA Legal Adviser and Director of the Office of Legal Affairs, Peri L. Johnson, in her keynote remarks at the Disaster Risk Reduction and International Law Symposiu…
According to the Japan Times, the Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA) tripled emergency areas to 30 km around atomic power plants as per new guidelines for fallout disaster mitigation measures. The NRA said the guidelines were revised to meet international standards and to enable local governments hosting nuclear plants to craft their own disaster mitiga…
The 75 States that are party to the Convention on Nuclear Safety (CNS) are gathered at the IAEA headquarters in Vienna, Austria, from 27 to 31 August 2012. About 700 participants are attending the CNS' Second Extraordinary Meeting and the Organizational Meeting for the Sixth Review Meeting to analyse the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear accident's aftermath.…
Following the earthquake and tsunami that struck Fukushima in March 2011, causing the world's worst nuclear accident in 25 years, a series of stress tests were carried out in Europe to examine the resilience of nuclear power stations. The European Union drafted a new framework setting out a clear nuclear safety objective to further reduce safety risks b…
WCDRR highlights for Sunday, 15 March 2015, issue #2:
The third UN World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction opened on Saturday in Sendai, Japan, attended by approximately 20 Heads of State and Government, many country delegations, and 8,000 participants. UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, Prime Minister of Japan Shinzō Abe and many other dignitaries…
Suva –Fiji launched its annual National Disaster Awareness Campaign focusing on better community preparedness as the country continues to strengthen its disaster risk governance. The campaign – set to last until April 2021- is focused at the local level, aiming to make communities better aware of and prepared for futures disasters.
Mr. Inia Ser…
The intention of this paper is to contribute to Sendai Framework Priority 1, “Understanding disaster risk”, and Priority 2, “Strengthening disaster risk governance to manage disaster risk”, by examining biological hazards and by proposing a structure for agencies to mitigate bio-risks.
With regard to Priority 1, the paper aims, first, to develop a…
This Safety Guide is intended to assist Member States in the application of General Safety Requirements (GSR) Part 7 and of the Transport Regulations. GSR Part 7 establishes requirements for an adequate level of preparedness for and response to a nuclear or radiological emergency, irrespective of the initiator of the emergency. This booklet provides gui…
Following its adoption by the Ukrainian Parliament on 3 May, and signature by President Zelenskyy on 17 May, the Law on the accession to the UNECE Convention on the Transboundary Effects of Industrial Accidents will enter into force on 29 May 2022. Ukraine will become a Party to the Convention on the ninetieth day after the date of deposit of its instru…
This report explains that disaster events are only the tip of the iceberg, by highlighting how these events are interconnected with each other, with other larger processes, as well as with our action or inaction. They can lead to future disasters or will worsen existing problems such as biodiversity loss or poverty. The world is becoming ever-more inter…