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The International Day for Disaster Reduction, established by the General Assembly of the United Nations (UN), is a reflection on the issue of disasters regarding the phases of prevention, rescue and rehabilitation. It calls for new strategies of action at local level and regional, particularly in the adoption of mechanisms and measures to…
How do you resume business after a disruptive event?
Business disruptions affects your organization’s daily performance, and more largely your operating costs and overall profit. Hence a good business continuity plan is highly valuable to a company as it keeps a company running in rough times. So, the question is, how to arrive at the right kind of con…
Conference Overview
The conference sets out to strengthen collaboration between research and knowledge-based institutions in India’s regions and internationally. The event will also develop a strategy for training, and capacity development, emphasizing the importance of regional disaster preparedness, prevention and response leading to effective disast…
Background
Countries of the South-East Asia Region (SEAR) of WHO are highly vulnerable to natural disasters. The magnitude of disasters and their effects have considerable impact on the morbidity and mortality of the Region where 25% of the world’s population reside. As per disaster statistics, SEAR member countries accounted for around 46% of deaths…
Rio+20 Side Event: One of the themes of this Rio +20 side event will be Disaster Risk Reduction.
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Registration deadlines
To stream on February 25th : 12:00 AM on February 23rd, 2022 (UTC)
To stream on March 3rd : 12:00 AM on March 1st, 2022 (UTC)
Having seen the disasters increasingly large-scaled and complicated in more places over the world, Fire and Disaster Management Agency, Japan (FDMA) has periodically organized an internatio…
This edition of Swiss Re's flagship sigma series presents the annual review of natural catastrophes and man-made disasters in the last year. The publication includes two feature chapters, one on the Tianjin explosions and another on the use of technology in disaster management.
The key messages of this edition include:
Global insured losses from all d…
This publication provides an overall understanding of chemical and industrial hazards in India, by discussing hazard identification and risk assessment, giving an overview of the legal framework for chemical disaster management and explaining how to raise community awareness and preparedness. The document also analyses land use planning issues, as…
This action plan, adopted in January 2012 the Government of Georgia, sets long-term goals, short-term targets and provides respective activities for eleven themes: disasters (covers natural and man-made disasters, industrial accidents), climate change, waste and chemical substances, nuclear and radiation safety, water resources, ambient air, Black Sea,…
This Commission staff working document is the second edition of an overview of the natural and man-made disaster risks that the EU may face, prepared under EU legislation on civil protection. The aim of the overview is to capture the trends in the ever-evolving disaster risk landscape, discuss the major drivers shaping it, take a closer look at 12 selec…
IAEA safety standards for protecting people and the environment, general safety guide no. GSG-2:
This publication covers nuclear safety, radiation safety, transport safety and waste safety. It provides a comprehensive set of high quality standards under regular review to be used as a prerequisite for the purpose of the protection of people in all Stat…
This DRR Tool Kit for Constituent Assembly members is produced jointly by the following organizations, with funding support of the European Commission Humanitarian Aid department (through DIPECHO V partners–ActionAid with AusAID co-finance, Care Nepal, Handicap International, Mercy Corps, Practical Action and UNDP–BPCR South and South–West Asia), Oxfam…
This document is designed for use in the development of the mandatory self-assessments that countries from South-Eastern Europe, Eastern Europe, the Caucasus and Central Asia submit to the secretariat under the Assistance Programme of the UNECE Convention on the Transboundary Effects of Industrial Accidents (TEIA). Self-assessments allow countries to as…
Many offices and agencies of the UN have been mobilized to respond to the aftermath of the disaster, provide emergency aid, and coordinate the international community’s response.
The cost of reconstruction is estimated to be in the range of several billion dollars and, on August 10, Mark Lowcock, the UN’s Emergency Relief Coordinator, called for…
Vienna/London - Next Sunday, 11 March 2012, marks the first anniversary of the devastating earthquake and tsunami that struck the east coast of Japan. One year on, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and the World Association of Nuclear Operators (WANO) are increasing their mutual cooperation to maximise nuclear safety efforts around the globe…