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Displaying 57 of about 57 resultsThe school will provide advanced training in risk and uncertainty in natural hazards from the Cabot Institute's leading academics plus some special guest lecturers.
Programme
Introduction - Professor Thorsten Wagener
Forward propagation of uncertainty - Dr Tamsin Edwards
Sensitivity analysis - Professor Thorsten Wagener
Expert elicitat…
The range of problems encompass environmental, geotechnical, highways, mining, hydrocarbon exploration and exploitation, agriculture and forensic science and engineering issues. In all categories, applied geophysics provide a non-destructive, cost-effective and faster ways of achieving solutions or obtaining information needed by the engineer to solve t…
The topics of lectures are listed bellow:
What is disaster management? What are the basic terms used in this discipline (hazard, vulnerability, risk, mitigation, reparedness, response, recovery etc)?
Understanding earthquake hazard
Understanding tsunami hazard
Cyclones/typhoons/hurricane/tropical storms
Coastal flooding/sea level rise
Understand…
This document is the 2012 edition of WMO's internationally recognized series gathering together the key climate events of the year. It considers the natural variability caused by the El Niño/La Niña cycle, volcanic eruptions and other phenomena causing the sustained warming of the lower atmosphere, the record loss of Arctic sea ice, extreme cold and sno…
This report provides an inventory of existing early warning systems, organised according to the type of natural hazards, such as earthquake, landslide, tsunami, volcano, wildfire, flood, drought, storm and cyclone, differentiating between rapid and slow onset events and spanning developing as well as developed countries. The report introduces basic conc…
This fact sheet presents UNOPS activities in helping governments and development partners construct disaster-resistant infrastructure and increase the resilience of communities against natural disasters through the design and construction of major infrastructure projects such as schools, roads, bridges and hospitals to the highest standards, able to wit…
This report presents the institutional and legal framework for disaster risk reduction in Zaire, and describes its common disaster risks and natural hazards, such as flood, land slide, drought, earthquake, cyclone and volcano. It outlines the strategies, plans, projects and activities related to disaster prevention and risk management.
The report provi…
This report presents the institutional and legal framework for disaster risk reduction in Western Samoa, and describes its common disaster risks and natural hazards, such as drought, earthquake, cyclone and volcano. It outlines the strategies, plans, projects and activities related to disaster prevention and risk management.
The report provides an eval…
By Erin Berger
London - When NASA wanted to take a closer look last month at melting sea ice patterns in the fast-warming Arctic, it turned to an unusual bit of equipment: an eco-drone.
The plane-like device, about the size and weight of a pony and loaded with sensors, was launched at the remote Oliktok Point Long Range Radar Station in northern Alask…
By SciDev.Net - Lisbeth Fog
Caribbean countries urgently need a regional tsunamiwarning centre to protect their densely populated coastlines, according to an article in Science today.
There has been significant effort over the past six years to improve tsunami preparedness, but more funds and research are needed to cut the detection time and ensure pe…
By Jonny Hogg
Kinshasha - Eleven years after an eruption of Mount Nyiragongo devastated the sprawling lakeside city of Goma, killing hundreds of people, eastern Congo's armed conflict is preventing scientists from predicting the volcano's next deadly explosion.
With its plume of ash and steam reaching high into the sky, the brooding Nyiragongo is one…
Jakarta - Scientists in Indonesia are experimenting with cloud seeding, or firing salt-based chemicals into clouds to force out rain, to try and prevent flooding in the capital Jakarta, home to increasingly destructive rains.
On 27 January, aircraft began dropping salt onto rain clouds to induce rain over the Java Sea before the clouds could reach the…