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Displaying 30 of about 541 resultsNEW YORK, 27 March 2013 - The UN Secretary-General's Special Representative for Disaster Risk Reduction, Margareta Wahlström, today welcomed the city of Hoboken, New Jersey, into UNISDR's Making Cities Resilient Campaign in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy. Hoboken brings to four the number of US cities who have joined UNISDR's global campaign which has…
The course focuses on strengthening community-based risk assessment capabilities in disaster-prone informal settlements. The course gives priority to assessing household and community risks using a range of participatory methods as well as other quantitative and spatial risk-related data. It is useful and relevant to disaster management practitioners wo…
Course Overview
The fundamental principle of community-based disaster risk reduction (CBDRR) involves the development and support of bottom up processes arising from the communities in recognition of their own needs and aspirations for community safety, and appropriate actions to address them. The CBDRR course provides an opportunity to practitioners t…
Course Focus
There is a vast opportunity for community forestry to strengthen national resilience to climate change through supporting livelihoods and income, increasing food security and production, leveraging social capital and knowledge, reducing disaster risks, and regulating microclimates.
The importance of forests and local forest management is no…
This is the eighth symposium on climate change following successful events held between 2008 and 2012 in Kyoto, London, Quito, Seoul, Cairo, Accra and Montreal.
The main purpose of the Symposium is to move forward the agenda on using ICTs to monitor climate change, mitigate and adapt to its effects and, in this light, identify future requirements for I…
Background
Earthquake Risk in Myanmar
Due to its geographic location along the active collision and subduction zone of the Indo-Eurasian plate boundary and the Burma microplate, Myanmar is prone to earthquakes. According to the hazard profile of Myanmar, a swath of land in the Northern and Central region in the country falls into destructive (V) to st…
This e-learning course focuses on disaster risk management (DRM) at the city level. Participants will learn, in particular, about planning and decision making under uncertainty and how to make their cities more resilient to climate change impacts and natural disasters. The course provides cutting edge tools on vulnerability assessment, institutional ass…
This conference is dedicated to the study and exposition of the status and prospects of engineering in support of a bright future for humanity in the midst of a rapidly changing and uncertain environment, both physical and sociological due to climate change.
Engineering for adaptation:
Programs and measures to reduce GHG emissions will simply slow th…
The international conference will promote the debate of relevant issues among engineers and researchers in soil and rock mechanics and in environmental fields. An important challenge for scientists is not only to advance in the knowledge on technical matters but also to promote the teaching of these aspects in a wide sense and to increase the awareness…
Objective:
To present the latest in beach preservation technology and real-world practice.
To provide a technological transfer from the scientific and engineering community to government officials who make the decisions on coastal projects and policies.
Conference Highlights:
Two sessions devoted to the issue of hardbottom and mitigati…
Coastal GeoTools is the conference series that focuses on the technical information needs of the USA’s coastal programs. The 2013 conference will focus on building the digital coast, a Web platform that provides access to geospatial data, tools, and technical training.
Themes of the event will include sea level rise, coastal hazards management, comm…
The 23rd SRA-Europe conference will be held 16-18 June 2014 in Istanbul, Turkey and hosted by Istanbul Technical University. The special theme of the conference is “Analysis and Governance of Risks beyond Boundaries”
• to emphasize that risks are able to travel through the virtual boundaries labeled as “regions”, “territories” and “countries”,
• to pro…
The session will be conducted by Dom Hunt, DRR Adviser with Concern Worldwide’s Emergency Unit and is open to all interested in this area. Aaron Clark-Ginsberg, a doctoral researcher at the CHA, will also provide an overview of an ongoing Concern/UCD disaster risk reduction study involving 10 countries.
Disaster risk reduction (DRR) aims to reduce the…
Background
New reports and articles are increasingly pointing to water risk as one of the biggest issues associated with climate change, energy production, food security, and human health. In an effort to better understand how and where these water risks are emerging, WRI published the first-ever Aqueduct water risk map two years ago. Today, the need fo…
The 6th annual conference provides an opportunity for users to meet, collaborate and share information regarding new and innovative applications of the Hazus technology and resources. As the largest Hazus conference in the world, this event will showcase the latest advances in research and practice.
Additionally, participants are encouraged to submit p…