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This Conference aims to bring under one roof specialists from the academia and industry on earthquake engineering, landslides, floods, tsunamis and hurricanes.
This conference provides the opportunity to watch and listen how the scientific community is coping with in their fields of expertise; this is the essence of cross-fertilization of knowl…
The EST has been organized in conjunction with the Regional Seminar on Safe, Climate Adaptive and Disaster Resilient Transport for Sustainable Development & Regional Dialogue on Transport and Climate Change
The theme of the 9th EST Forum is "EST for Resiliency - Building Safe, Smart, Low-carbon and Resilient Cities in Asia".
While countries in the…
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The conference program has been structured to provide a forum for the presentation, exchange, and documentation of new information on the seismic evaluation and seismic rehabilitation of existing buildings and other structures, including case studies, new discoveries, innovative use of new technologies and materials, nonstructural component anch…
A fully funded 3-year PhD position in geotechnical engineering at the University of Salerno (Italy) is available within the doctoral course “Risk and sustainability in civil, environmental and construction engineering”. The PhD will start in November 2015.
The geotechnical engineering research group seeks a highly motivated candidate for a PhD project…
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Melbourne, Barcelona and online
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There is an increasing need to respond to the displacement and destruction of communities and their infrastructure through both natural and manmade disasters. There is also the need to build the resilience of vulnerable communities in disaster-prone areas. Although there is now wide recognition of…
This report analyses the opportunities and challenges facing designers in adapting buildings for a changing UK climate. This industry-led report is mainly aimed at business designers but is also directly relevant to the construction industry and to policy and regulation makers. It looks at the emerging market for building designers preparing buildings f…
This position paper was developed on behalf of the Global Facility for Disaster Risk Reduction (GFDRR), an international partnership managed by the World Bank and funded by 25 global partners, to help high-risk, low-capacity developing countries better understand and reduce their vulnerabilities to natural hazards, adapt to climate change and address ch…
This report examines the national legal and regulatory frameworks with regard to disaster risk reduction in Haiti. It analyses the extent to which legal frameworks in Haiti support national and local efforts towards disaster-risk reduction (DRR).
The study covers a broad scope of law and regulation relevant to DRR for natural hazards, including issues…
World Bank Board approves US$3 million grant for long-term recovery efforts
Washington D.C. — Six months after Cyclone Pam hit the Pacific, the World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors today approved an additional US$3 million grant to support Tuvalu’s medium-term recovery efforts.
Almost half of Tuvalu’s 10,000 people were affected by the category 5…
Disaster risk management should be viewed as a core development issue. This would require strengthening institutional systems as well as empowering communities to become more resilient. Development of disaster response system at taluk and block levels would help in effective risk mitigation, according to Kamal Kishore, Member, Ministry of Home Affairs,…
Vanuatu - Following devastation caused by Tropical Cyclone Pam on 13 March 2015, IOM undertook an assessment of the Vanuatu Customs and Inland Revenue (CIR) and the Vanuatu Immigration Service (VIS) to determine the extent of damage to operational capabilities and to propose reconstruction activities to reinstate them to pre-cyclone level.
Due to subst…
By Navinesh Kumar, IFRC
Nine months since Tropical Cylone Pam swept through the Solomon Islands, the people of Malaita province, situated in the North East of the capital, are still struggling to recover from its impact.
26-year-old Mark Ramotala of the Nineveh community in Malaita, which has a total population of approximately 50 people, said that th…
The man on the phone sounded frantic. His house had collapsed in the big earthquake that had hit Nepal, he said.
Now he was summoning Saritha Rai who had built his family home, to come and survey the destruction. And he was demanding his money back.
Rai, a mason, was trained to build earthquake resistant homes by a project run by the UN Development Pr…
Tonga – Private construction companies in Tonga are working alongside communities on ’Eua Island to construct buildings resilient against disasters.
Several private business partners including Nukualofa-based engineering company ITS Pacific and supplier Pacific Timber and Hardware (PTH), are helping ’Eua residents to build or refurbish nine disaster-re…
Washington – Following floods that devastated Malawi in January 2015, the World Bank Group’s Board of Executive Directors today approved US$80 million to help the country reconstruct critical public infrastructure, restore agricultural livelihoods, enhance food security, and improve the Government of Malawi’s disaster response and recovery capacities.…