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Ce document retrace l'expertise française en matière de prévention des risques majeurs par type de risques. Elle a pour but de partager dans le cadre d’actions de coopération internationale ses compétences dans les domaines de la connaissance, la prévention et la gestion des risques. Elle vise à répondre à trois objectifs afin de rendre le…
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…
This document summarizes the outcomes of the sub-forum on science and technology in support of natural disaster reduction, held as part of the IDNDR Programme Forum 1999. It provides comprehensive discussion and analysis of scientific and technical measures, such as early warning systems, that can be effectively used in disaster risk management.
The doc…
This report presents the institutional and legal framework for disaster risk reduction in Vanuatu, and describes its common disaster risks and natural hazards, such as earthquake, cyclone and volcano. It outlines the strategies, plans, projects and activities related to disaster prevention and risk management.
The report provides an evaluation of count…
This map shows the worldwide distribution of natural disasters that occurred in 2012, according to Munich Re, NatCatSERVICE.
With more than 25,000 entries, NatCatSERVICE is one of the leading global databases for natural catastrophes. Every year between 800 and 1,000 loss events are recorded and analysed. In view of the information collated, the extent…
An online tsunami awareness resource containing six chapters: (i) tsunami basics; (ii) Australian tsunami impacts; (iii) warning system; (iv) marine threat tsunami; (v) land threat tsunami; and (vi) preparing for tsunami. It also considers: earthquakes, landslides, volcanic activity and wind waves.
Yogyakarta - When Indonesia’s Mount Merapi, north of central Java's capital Yogyakarta, started spewing thicker and more colourful clouds of smoke in October 2010, local residents wavered over the risk it signalled. The delay proved fatal.
The time lost put one family in a horrific predicament. With only a single motorbike, the parents could not transp…
A declaration by the Mayors and Local Government representatives together with National Government Officials emphasizing the importance of reducing disaster risk in Arab cities, in which the participants of the First Arab conference for disaster risk reduction recognize the vulnerability Arab cities and towns to disasters such as earthquakes, volcanoes,…
This report describes major activities and events related to the International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction (IDNDR) in the Americas, and discusses experiences, achievements and challenges in disaster risk reduction (DRR) of all the countries in the region.
The report provides summaries of the assessment of achievements during IDNDR, highlighti…
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…
A volcano is one of nature’s most beautiful creations and it is built from successive volcanic eruptions. It can be exciting and fascinating, but also very dangerous. It is capable of creating harmful, whether during an eruption or a period of quiescence. It blesses people living at the foot slope of volcano with beautiful scenery and fertile land, but…
This document describes the recovery strategies and projects implemented in the wake of two natural hazards in Ecuador: the prolonged eruption of the Tungurahua volcano, whose impacts have extended far beyond its direct zone of influence; and the intense rainy season of the first half of 2008, which affected 13 of the country’s 24 provinces.
This paper…
This report presents the institutional and legal framework for disaster risk reduction in Solomon Islands, and describes its common disaster risks and natural hazards, such as flood, land slide, earthquake, cyclone, tsunami and volcano. It outlines the strategies, plans, projects and activities related to disaster prevention and risk management.
The re…
"There hasn’t been a large-scale earthquake around Tokyo since 1923,” Japanese seismologist Katsuhiko Ishibashi told Time. "There’s a high probability a violent tremor will strike the region [in the foreseeable future], stronger than the one that hit two years ago. It could be catastrophic."
The city has been preparing with measures such as strict buil…
2nd G-Ever international symposium and the 1st IUGS & SCJ international workshop on natural hazards
Background:
Asia-Pacific Region is an area with high risk of catastrophic natural disasters such as earthquakes, tsunami and volcanic eruptions. In today's highly globalized economy, when a disaster occurs it can create unpredictable turmoil not jus…