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Displaying 30 of about 44 resultsThis brief summarizes findings of a case study of Bharatpur, Nepal, that examined ways to undertake inclusive urban development to reduce biological hazards and disaster risks. The pandemic experience reinforced the need for planning to focus on biological hazards – those that arise from disease-producing organisms – alongside planning to reduce di…
The IRDR is currently finalising details for our annual conference. The conference aims to draw together a varied and dynamic audience from across UCL and beyond to report on, explore and inform research in risk and disaster reduction through thought-provoking lectures and discussions. This year the conference will explore the following themes:
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Taking up the challenge: Readiness for risk reduction and response
The 26th annual conference of the Disaster Management Institute of Southern Africa (DMISA), a non-profit professional association for Disaster Management and Disaster Risk Management practitioners in Southern Africa.
The UNISDR “Resilient Cities: My City is Getting Ready” campaign chal…
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The Current Affairs Committee of the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities (a body within the Council of Europe) called for a debate on making cities resilient, at which its members tabled a resolution calling for the Congress to support UNISDR's Making Cities Resilient campaign. The debate took place at the 22nd Session of the Congress…
The Seminar is organized jointly by the UNECE Convention on the Transboundary Effects of Industrial Accidents and the OECD Working Group on Chemical Accidents.
The main objective of the Seminar is to discuss how the work of UNECE and OECD on industrial and chemical accidents prevention, preparedness and response can contribute to achieving the sustaina…
The San Diego Urban Area Incident Management Team and San Diego Fire-Rescue Department are pleased to announce the 2017 AHIMTA Annual Training & Education Symposium taking place December 2-7, 2017 in beautiful San Diego, California. The symposium will begin with pre-conference sessions December 2nd-4th and be followed by the main conference consisti…
This issue focuses on urban resilience and looks at recent occurrences of weather-related events causing widespread devastation and misery, including floods, typhoons and wildfires in Australia, severe winter weather in Colombia, snowstorms in Estonia and Scotland, hundreds of people and thousands of buildings lost to flash floods and mudslides in Brazi…
At the occasion of the opening of a new emergency operations centre, Mark Widner, the city's emergency preparedness manager, expressed his wish "to make Independence the most disaster-resilient community in the country." He called for individual responsibility of citizens to get themselves and their families ready to ride out whatever happens, such as t…
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…
By Lee Kyung-mi
A recent earthquake in Gyeongju has prompted the South Korean government to move up planned stress tests for all nuclear power plants by one year and bolster their earthquake resistance. But no measures have yet been suggested for reducing or closing plants built in earthquake-vulnerable regions like Gyeongju.
The decision by the Minis…
By Laura Bliss
Superstorm Sandy did a number on the New York City subway. When the hurricane hit in October 2012, rain and storm surge turned impermeable asphalt and concrete streets into rivers. Millions of gallons of seawater poured down subway entrances, manholes, and thousands of other openings to the subterranean spaces below. Between the total de…
GENEVA, 17 April 2013 - Outer space isn't a place organizations usually think of when looking to build resilience and reduce disaster risks. Yet, this is exactly where participants' minds were when experts were invited by UNISDR and the UN's Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA) to discuss the incorporation of space technology into the post-2015 disas…
Over the past few decades, the far-reaching effects of industrial accidents have reminded us that industrial facilities that produce, handle or store hazardous substances remain a serious sometimes transboundary threat to our societies and to the environment. Therefore, the Parties of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) Convention…
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The conference aims to bring together specialists, practitioners, academics, students and the public to a common platform. Discussions on disaster management, risk and vulnerability reduction can lead to increased awareness of disasters and its various hues, strategies for resiliency, and newer technologies for disaster management. This is a…
Integrative Risk and Disaster Management – Towards Resilient Cities
IDRC Davos 2016 with its various formats will again address different risk topics, cross-cutting themes and instruments focusing on urban areas and promoting resilience in cities. How to make cities less vulnerable for the many threats respectively how to increase resilience to make ci…