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Displaying 30 of about 36 resultsThe special session of ISCRAM 2008 will discuss the latest scientific/technological developments, projects, programs and best practices in the field of monitoring, early warning systems (EWS) of various natural hazards. The advances in the rapidly evolving geo-information technologies, information management, and computational methods have proved to be…
This UNU-EHS InterSections underlines the need to access the topic of early warning from different viewpoints as a way to provide policy relevant advice concerning early warning systems to Member States, and to contribute to the efforts of the United Nations in addressing international cooperation and development of generally applicable standards. This…
Computers can be trained to better detect distant nuclear detonations, chemical blasts and volcano eruptions by learning from artificial explosion signals, according to a new method devised by a University of Alaska Fairbanks scientist.
The work, led by UAF Geophysical Institute postdoctoral researcher Alex Witsil, was published recently in the journal…
Two weeks after a tsunami alert over the entire Indian Ocean, following a strong earthquake on the Eastern coast of Sumatra, stakeholders met for consultations on the national Disaster Management Bill.
This was held at the STC Hall Monday, when representatives of the police, fire services, various ministries, notably Health and Environment, as well as…
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…
Local communities across Japan are increasingly adopting new approaches to disaster risks without waiting for central authorities to show them what to do.
The measures include neighborhood tsunami risk maps, locally planned evacuation routes and community-level disaster drills.
Representatives on Saturday spoke of their efforts to delegates on the sid…
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…
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…
Fire & Safety will coordinate with Government to promote disaster prevention. It is an event which creates a platform for international and domestic manufacturers to interact with and for industry channel players to discover more business opportunities. Besides, it's also a not-to-missed expo for industry insiders to source the Asia-made fire safety…
The purpose of this course is to build the capacity of health and development workers and their organizations to be able to establish efficient, coordinated and flexible systems for managing disasters and improve sustainable development.
The following units will be covered
• Introduction to emergency management
• Natural and technological hazards
•…
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 week, geotechnical experts and data scientists from Brazil and the Netherlands will collaborate in a hackathon to design and test a framework to remotely monitor safety of mine tailing dams. The hackathon is organized by Deltares and will take place in Delft.
795 mine tailing dams in Brazil
Tailing dams are earthen embankment structures used to s…
The Gulf of Mexico’s hypoxic zone is predicted to be the largest ever recorded due to extreme flooding of the Mississippi River this spring, according to an annual forecast by a team of NOAA-supported scientists from the Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium, Louisiana State University and the University of Michigan. The forecast is based on Mississi…
GENEVA, 15 August 2016 - A new report highlights the lessons of Japan’s 2011 earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster, the world’s deadliest catastrophe in a decade, and underlines how they fed into the creation of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction.
The study by a team of leading international researchers wraps up the thr…
Our 2012 theme is: 'Community resilience: Prepare, respond, rebuild'. It features keynote presentations on building community capacity and resilience as well as lessons and challenges from major disasters ranging from the recent Japan earthquake and tsunami to the Slave Lake, Alberta, wildfire. Other sessions share knowledge on incorporating Social Medi…