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Displaying 15 of about 15 resultsThe Insurance Institute for Business & Home Safety (IBHS) has developed a new streamlined business continuity program for small businesses that may not have the time or resources to create an extensive plan to recover from business interruptions. IBHS is a leading national expert on preparing for, and repairing, rebuilding, and recovering from catas…
This guide provides the first standard method for conducting geospatially-based damage assessments through the analysis of drone and satellite imagery. The “BAR Methodology” offers potential improvements to wind disaster damage assessments in terms of providing responding agencies with previously unavailable information about hard to reach, often non-pe…
Ahmad Heryawan, West Java Governor, said that he has prepared Rp75 billion in the Contingency Budget Post to anticipate the risks of disaster this year.
“It must be prepared every year. We have to prepare the budget if disaster happens,” said Ahmad Heryawan in Bandung, Wednesday, February 10, 2016.
Aher, Ahmad Heryawan’s nickname, said that similar bu…
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This summit will look at disaster response, mitigation, preparedness and recovery in the context of tornadoes. Topics include engineering perspectives of disaster management, tornado losses then and now, dealing with chronic flooding, El Niño’s effect on tornadoes, legislative impacts on insurance, business resilience, tornado shelters, and comm…
From May 30th to June 3rd 2016, the Disabled People’s Organization of Quang Tri province conducted a Training of Trainers (ToT) course on disability inclusive community-based disaster risk management (DiCBDRM) for 15 participants in Dong Ha, Quang Tri province. The participants were persons working in the fields of disaster risk reduction (DRR) and disa…
This review paper presents the chronology and frequency of tornados in Bangladesh between 1865 and 2014 to identify their destruction pattern. It demonstrates that the regularity of tornados increases the last few decades, since 1960.
The authors suggest the following measures for mitigating impacts and reducing losses:
improved weath…
This brief presents key facts on the impacts of natural disasters such as drought, hurricanes, earthquakes and floods on Caribbean economies and livelihoods from 1998 to 2013. It also summarizes some of the initiatives undertaken in the region to adress this issue and reduce the risk and impacts. Further, it presents some of the tools and information sy…
Climate stressors and impacts
Because climate change is projected to increase the frequency of severe weather, communities located in regions that have traditionally experienced severe storms need to be particularly well prepared for extreme events. The city of Greensburg, Kansas, and its hospital—Kiowa County Memorial—have been rebuilding for precisel…
By Richard Stokoe
There will be a rise in unnecessary tornado deaths if local and federal government in America continue to rely on old fashioned warning systems and this trend in fatalities will continue for years to come unless immediate changes are made. These are the stark findings of a major year-long study into why people are still dying in…
Building weather-resilient roads is a topic of increasing concern everywhere, most especially in places like the Pacific Islands, which are isolated, spread out, small in population and particularly threatened by climate change. Many important roads lie next to the sea, barely above sea level, and are without drainage. They’re often badly maintained and…
The average number tornado outbreaks that bring multiple twisters from a single weather event is on the rise in the U.S., according to new research. The findings could change the way insurers and disaster preparedness officials respond to tornadoes.
Tornado outbreaks result in dozens and sometimes hundreds of tornadoes each year and cause billions of d…
Global Disaster Relief Summit returns to the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Centre, Washington D.C. on 7-8 September 2016. Organised by Aid & International Development Forum (AIDF), this high-profile event gathers all actors involved with delivering aid relief and resilience programmes with an aim to address challenges related to ena…
Every business that wants to stay in business should have a plan to prepare for and respond to severe weather and other emergencies. Not having a plan, or having a poorly prepared or misunderstood plan, can lead to disorganized preparation or confused response, with the possibility of harm to employees, facilities, equ…
To demonstrate risk reduction from disaster‐resistant building codes, FEMA assigned AECOM to develop practical losses avoided studies (LAS) using HAZUS, FEMA’s popular GIS‐based community loss modeling platform. HAZUS quantifies impacts to structures, contents, infrastructure systems and economic sectors for flood, wind and seismic hazards. The engineer…
By Celeste Smith, The Charlotte Observer
A deadly tornado outbreak inspired two Charlotte-area entrepreneurs to create an Internet-connected home alarm system that warns of bad weather — and can also tell you if you left the refrigerator door open. It’s the Halo, developed by Ben Stagg, 36, and Chad White, 43, through their company, Halo Smart Lab…