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Displaying 15 of about 44 resultsThe New York City Panel on Climate Change, a panel of scientists and a task force of government agencies and partners will regularly meet to make recommendations for the city's adaptation to the increasingly frequent storms, heat waves, as well as to the sea level rise and coastal flooding threat. The New York Times reports that a recently passed legisl…
The Mainichi Daily News reports that officials said on Tuesday at the government's disaster prevention panel that in the wake of the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, disaster preparedness plans will be revised. The plan calls for measures against two types of tsunami - those of the largest class and others of sizes that occur relatively frequently - bas…
Cape Town has launched its disaster risk management centre, ready to respond to anything from a nuclear meltdown to the fires and floods which occur routinely in the city and its surrounding areas, says the Independent Online. The launch was timed to coincide with the UN’s International Strategy for Disaster Reduction campaign, being run under the banne…
The ninth meeting of the Conference of the Parties will take place on 28-30 November 2016 in Ljubljana, Slovenia and will provide an opportunity to review the work under the Convention and to determine future directions and priorities.
Intended Audience
Parties from member states.
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Key decisions to be taken by the ninth meeting of the Conf…
By Mark Kammerbauer
The 2013 European Floods submerged many riverine regions in southern and eastern Germany, Poland, and the Czech Republic. The Fischerdorf and Natternberg neighborhoods of the Bavarian city of Deggendorf along the Danube river were flooded after two levees within the region breached. These communities faced an additional danger in t…
Geneva, 11 January 2012 - Estimates of between $350 billion to $380 billion in global economic losses from disasters have made 2011 the most expensive year in history for catastrophes, according to the insurance industry.
The earthquakes in Japan in March and New Zealand in February accounted for the bulk of these losses, according to estimates issued…
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…
Researchers at Oregon State University used silicone wristbands to measure Houston residents’ increased exposure to hazardous chemicals in the wake of Hurricane Harvey in 2017.
The wristbands recorded exposures to 162 different chemicals, including pesticides, flame retardants, industrial compounds, phthalates and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons.
Res…
Climate science is clear: Floodwaters are a growing risk for many American cities, threatening to displace not only people and housing but also the land-based pollution left behind by earlier industrial activities.
In 2019, researchers at the U.S. Government Accountability Office investigated climate-related risks at the 1,571 most pollu…
This book focuses on topics that received little attention until now, like economic aspects of disasters and land use planning as a mitigation tool. It looks at risks in a comprehensive way, and considers risks not just as a technical, social, political or economic matter, but rather as originating and challenging the various disciplines. The volume als…
By Mika Shimizu
Numerous visits to the impacted areas of the 2011 Tohoku disaster in Japan revealed large gaps between local field realities and policy orientations. A trip to Tohoku this summer confirmed the continuing commitment of local people and staff to recovery efforts despite policies that are not always informed by the reality of what is happe…
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…
By Margareta Wahlström
New York – Buried in the coverage of last year’s Great East Japan Earthquake is a success story of which the world should not lose sight, because it tells us much about how we manage risk in the twenty-first century. It is the story of how the Japanese people, through centuries of memory and shared experience, have built up their…
This booklet is a practical, and easy to comprehend, assistance manual for citizens to be prepared for emergency situations.
This document is a Russian contribution to the implementation of IDNDR programmes.
11 March 2016, TOKYO – The head of the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR), Mr. Robert Glasser, today attended the 5th anniversary memorial service for those who lost their lives in the Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami of March 11, 2011.
Mr. Glasser said: “On this solemn occasion I would like to extend the sympathies of the UN Secreta…