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1. Sharing scientific and technical information for a better knowledge of risks and technical tools of risk reduction in the Mediterranean area, including:
- Environmental and climatic risks and their impacts on resources
- Telluric risks: data and management strategies
- Human and ethic solidarities
2. Th…
idRc 2020, with the theme “ Resilience of/in Megacities ”, is organized by the international peer-reviewed Resilience Journal and its editorial group.
Resilience is described as the capacity of a system, community, or society potentially exposed to hazards to adapt by resisting or changing in order to reach and maintain an acce…
The series of Summer Institute for Disaster and Risk Research is part of the implementation of the Hazard and Risk Science Base at Beijing Normal University, funded jointly by the State Administration of Foreign Experts Affairs, Ministry of Education, and the Beijing Normal University.
Who can apply?
The Summer Institute is designed…
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…
This publication reports on the discussions and outcomes from the Second India Disaster Management Congress organized by National Institute of Disaster Management (NIDM), India and held on 4-6 November, 2009 in New Delhi. The report presents a total of 26 technical sessions organized around 13 thematic clusters, including sessions on:
-- Earthquake
-- M…
This report analyses past technological incidents with hazardous materials releases and damage to industrial facilities caused by the impact of storms. It discusses the vulnerability of industrial sites including that of the main equipment types present at the facility and analyses how they are damaged. The first part of the report describes the storm h…
Recent natural and man-made disasters, including the most costly natural disaster in U.S. history (Hurricane Katrina in 2005) and the largest accidental marine oil spill in U.S. history (Deepwater Horizon MC252 in 2010), highlight vulnerability of coastal region: Up to 60 percent of the Gulf of Mexico Coast shoreline is considered very vulnerable to sea…
Si la maîtrise du risque constitue un enjeu majeur depuis de nombreuses années, la gestion du risque a pris une nouvelle dimension avec la croissance démographique, la globalisation de l’économie, l’internationalisation des échanges, la complexité croissante des systèmes et réglementations, et les désordres de toutes natures (changement climatique, gest…
Disaster Risk Reduction for Sustainable Societies
Nowadays societies face an increasing number of disasters and a wider variety of risks which pose serious threats to life and infrastructure. Environmental damage, climate change and lack of sustainable development measures add to these threats, making societies more vulnerable. Regardless of the resour…
The ASEAN Risk Monitor and Disaster Management Review (ARMOR) is important for several reasons. Firstly, until this point there has been no authoritative publication that provides risk profile information specifically regarding the ASEAN region. Secondly, with an ever-growing body of accumulated knowledge and information on disaster in the region, there…
This handbook re-examines the role of women in disaster risk management in the practical context of Bangladesh. In this handbook, an attempt was made to illustrate their achievements along with their risks in a very easy and communicable way. It proposes that if women’s disaster risk reduction techniques are incorporated in the mainstream, then disaster…
This publication briefly describes and reviews key historical landmarks and signal accomplishments of the Asian Disaster Preparedness Center's programme activities, with an emphasis on the evolution from current strengths and abilities and how they can lead a process towards furthering the innovation, collaboration, capacity development and practice acr…
“Environmental Legislation for Disaster Risk Management”, training module is based on the analysis of global context of environmental laws, policies and approaches of integrating environment and disaster risk management. This module cites examples of legal and policy framework from across the world, along with special references to the Indian legal fram…
A framework in which the Indian government has laid out an action plan for reducing the country's vulnerability to potential hazards that are relevant to India, including: environmental disasters such as earthquake, landslide, flood, drought, cyclone, cold wave, heat wave, chemical disaster, fire, epidemic or pest attack; technological and sectoral disa…
Beginning in 2016, the Center for Climate and Security established the Working Group on Climate, Nuclear, and Security Affairs to examine the confluence of these three sets of risks. The group reconvened in January 2018 to more deeply explore three specific questions the Working Group identified in 2017. First, can we devise a flexible policy toolk…