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Displaying 60 of about 195 resultsThis DRR guide for public education provides advice on what to do in case of various emergencies due to natural hazards. It aims to support disaster management practitioners and non-specialists to build a culture of safety, develop public awareness campaigns, and contribute to the creation of educational resources.
These Key Action Messages for familie…
Elizabeth Lewis, Newcastle University
Doris sounds like the sort of name your grandmother might have. It’s not particularly scary. But the name now has a rather different association, after “Storm Doris” tore through the UK. The Met Office, the UK’s national weather forecaster, put much of the country on “amber alert” and reported 94mph gusts…
20 Participants working on disaster risk reduction and disability excitedly discussed “how to develop and transfer an advocacy message to decision makers effectively”.
Developing effective messages and finding suitable means to convey them were two of the topics covered by the training session on “Advocacy for disability inclusive disaster risk reducti…
By Ursula Cochran
First, we remember the dead. The two Kaikōura earthquake victims weren’t killed by the earthquake so much as by failure of the buildings they were in. But a year on from the magnitude 7.8 earthquake that shook central New Zealand, is also a time to be thankful. Thankful that most of us who experienced the earthquake survived it, thank…
The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Regional Integration and International Trade, Mr Seetanah Lutchmeenaraidoo, had a meeting today in Port Louis with six students who will attend a High School Students Islands Summit in Okinawa, Japan in the context of the World Tsunami Awareness Day 2017. The Ambassador of Japan to Mauritius, Mr Yoshiharu Kato, and other…
James Painter and Peter Walton of Oxford University interviewed 50 policy-makers and development practitioners to find out how they are using the ‘growing’ science that links extreme weather events to human-made climate change. Here, they report on the findings.
First it was Hurricane Harvey. Then Hurricane Irma. Now Hurricane Maria. On the other side…
ABU DHABI - The United Arab Emirates is participating in the International Day for Disaster Reduction, which falls on 13th October each year, under the slogan "Home Safe Home" The aim of the event is to strengthen the global culture of disaster prevention and to deal with the situation and its consequences efficiently.
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Saif Sultan Mubarak Al Ary…
“The volume and complexity of what we know has exceeded our individual ability to deliver its benefits correctly, safely, or reliably. Knowledge has both saved us and burdened us,” writes Atul Gawande in The Checklist Manifesto.
In today’s information age, information overload has become an inevitable obstacle to effective disaster preparedness, respon…
Each year, the International Day for Disaster Reduction is an opportunity to acknowledge how people and communities around the world are reducing their exposure to natural hazards and to raise awareness about ways to rein in the risks that they face. This year’s campaign focuses on reducing the number of people affected by disasters worldwide. Timely ac…
By Adrianne Kroepsch
It is the dry season in western states, which means that large swaths of land are burning or smoldering and are likely to remain that way until the snows arrive. The 2017 wildfire year started earlier and has scorched more acreage than normal. It is also far from over.
As wildfire trends worsen, it is increasingly important for co…
By Alexander Burns
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Despite consensus among scientists, not everyone is convinced that terrifying weather means climate change is an urgent threat. There is virtually no prospect of large-scale federal action on the issue in the near future, and President Trump has made a top priority of unraveling the Obama administration’s environmental policie…
By Gemma Sou
We’re really only just learning about the impact Hurricane Irma has had on the Caribbean, especially for residents of disaster affected areas.
How can we tell their stories, and ensure their voices and experiences are not ignored? Here are four things the media could focus on:
Remember that locals get it worst
Local Caribbean residents…
In August 2002, after more than a week of heavy rains over a large part of Central Europe, the Elbe and Danube rivers overflowed with such force not seen in a lifetime. This significant flood disaster resulted in billions of Euros in damages and took the life of twelve people.
During that time, it was not only the river banks that burst. The European C…
During recent heavy rains, citizens in Jakarta have been harnessing the power of social media to report flood locations via the new PetaBencana.id platform. Flood information received by PetaBencana.id is automatically incorporated into InAWARE, a decision support system in use operationally by Indonesia’s national disaster management agency (Badan Nasi…
WMO and Climate Central launch new series of climate reports by TV weather presenters.
Geneva – In a year already marked by heatwaves and new daily temperature records, television weather presenters have explored how climate change would make future summers even hotter in some of the world’s major cities.
If greenhouse gas emissions continue to i…