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The collaborative workshop between Coventry University, United Kingdom (UK) and Gadjah Mada University (UGM), Indonesia will be a critical, multidisciplinary effort to explore the research theme of natural hazards (e.g., volcanoes), disaster risk-reduction, community resilience and the role of cultural practices in recovery. We will bring togeth…
El Programa Manejo de Crisis y Construcción de Resiliencia está diseñado para ejecutivos de alto rango dentro de las comunidades de seguridad, emergencia y municipales así como para directores y altos mandos de Protección Civil de México que sean responsables de la planificación, prevención, preparación, administración de crisis y desastres masivos…
This publication outlines the experiences of the six Caribbean countries which participated in a process to adapt and implement the Cuban Risk Reduction Management Centre model. The publication shares the stories and lessons learned by a diverse set of stakeholders as they engaged in south-south cooperation as a tool for strengthening their disaster ris…
This book provides the first comprehensive assessment of global volcanic hazards and risk, presenting the state of the art in our understanding of global volcanic activity. It examines assessment and management capabilities, and considers the preparedness of the global scientific community and government agencies to manage volcanic hazards and risk. Par…
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Le plan ORSEC est un plan cadre gouvernemental, permettant d’organiser la réponse en cas de catastrophe de grande ampleur qui dépasse les moyens habituellement misent en place pour y répondre. Il permet d’appuyer le leadership du gouvernement sur l’organisation de cette réponse en clarifiant les rôles et responsabilités de chacun mais auss…
By Catherine Wilson
Madang, Papua New Guinea - For 11 years, the people of Manam Island, a volcano rising out of the Bismarck Sea around 15 km off Papua New Guinea's north coast, have waited to be resettled after fleeing devastating eruptions in 2004.
In July this year, another eruption inflicted more suffering on several thousand people who had retur…
Goma is not far from the Virunga volcanic region, located between Lake Kivu and the volcanoes Nyiragongo and Nyamulagira, the latter of which erupts nearly every year. The impact of these eruptions on infrastructure often disturbs economic, social and educational activities. Many cases of accidents caused by a lack of preventative measures have been reg…
La adquisición de un sistema de alerta temprana para el cantón Latacunga fue anunciado por el ministro coordinador de Seguridad, César Navas, y la secretaria de Gestión de Riesgos, María del Pilar Cornejo, según informa El Comercio. El equipo se utilizará cuando se emita una alerta de evacuación ante un posible descenso de lahar o flujo piroclastí…
The first detailed assessment of global volcanic risk, part of a larger international hazard assessment released on 4 March by the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction, will provide a detailed look at global volcanic risk and reveal the world’s deadliest volcanoes, in an attempt to save lives through prevention and response measures.
“For…
Authorities are applying rotating closures of roads leading to Mount Sinabung in the Karo regency, North Sumatra, to protect local residents from pyroclastic clouds, hot lava flows and volcanic ash in case the volcano erupts, the Karo Disaster Mitigation Agency (BPBD) has said, according to an article in the Jakarta Post.
With this condition, the agenc…
13 November 2015, GENEVA – The head of the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR), Margareta Wahlström, today described the eruption of the Nevado del Ruiz volcano which claimed 25,000 lives in Colombia on November 13, 1985, as “a major turning point in the history of disaster risk management.”
In a statement to mark the 30th anniversary, Ms. W…
This policy seeks to establish the guiding principles and architecture for disaster risk management (DRM) in Rwanda by presenting the institutional structures, roles, responsibilities, authorities and key processes, with the ultimate goal being to increase the resilience of vulnerable groups to disasters (the main natural hazards in Rwanda identified by…
This map shows the worldwide distribution of natural catastrophes that occurred between 1980 and 2014, based on the data from NatCatSERVICE, and gives overviews of overall and insured losses.
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 rec…
A GNS Science-devised system to work out the cumulative annual risk of working on and near active volcanoes has won a national safety award.
The system – a world-first – won a special commendation award at the 2015 Workplace Health and Safety Awards, held in Auckland this week.
The impetus for the new system was an incident in November 2012 where thre…
Mankind is grossly unprepared for a catastrophic volcanic eruption that could kill hundreds of millions of people and cast the world back into a “pre-civilisation state”, a panel of geologists, economists and climate scientists from the European Science Foundation have warned, reports the Australian.
According to the article, there is a 5 to 10 per cen…