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Displaying 15 of about 23 resultsThis working paper presents the findings from a pilot research project that investigated how disaster-affected households in low- and middle-income countries rebuild their homes in situations where little or no support is available from humanitarian agencies. The project was an interdisciplinary collaboration involving social scientists, geoscientists,…
This book offers recommendations and guidance to enhance the disaster resilience of the academic biomedical research community in the United States of America, with a special focus on the potential actions researchers, academic research institutions, and research sponsors can take to mitigate the impact of future disasters.
Chapters within the boo…
Engineers from Heriot-Watt’s Institute for Infrastructure and Environment have designed a ‘sacrificial device’ for buildings that will absorb the impact of earthquakes or blasts, preventing collapse and reducing the damage and residual drifts that can render buildings uninhabitable.
Current European ‘earthquake-proof’ buildings were designed to prevent…
Hurricanes Irma, Harvey and Maria may be over, but the devastating impact they had on the countries in their path continues, likewise the effects of successive earthquakes in Mexico, said senior United Nations officials Tuesday, calling for more action at all levels to manage disaster and climate risk and to prepare for future extreme weather events.
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This report briefly summarises the approach to community-managed DRR at the Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) in Asia, throughout assessment, planning and resource mobilisation phases to improve preparedness, response and recovery in India, Myanmar, Nepal and the Philippines. It also describes the work to protect livelihoods and economic as…
This report describes a multi-country study conducted by the Catholic Relief Services (CRS) on people’s perceptions of using CRS‑recommended hazard‑resistant construction practices. The study involved communities in five countries where CRS had implemented post-disaster reconstruction projects in the last six years: Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, the…
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…
By Lynn Englum
On October 29, 2012, Hurricane Sandy made landfall on the New Jersey coastline and swept into the New York City Metropolitan Region as a tropical storm. It unleashed flooding and destruction in its wake and became the second costliest disaster in U.S. history with $65 billion in damages.
The storm brought the region to it’s knees, crush…
By Robert Glasser
There was never a more appropriate time to examine the issue of building back better in the context of post-disaster recovery than the present.
Millions of people are on the move because of disasters.
In Africa, drought continues to drive rural-urban migration; 20 countries have declared drought emergencies in the last 18 months.…
By David Sislen, Alanna Simpson and Yann Kerblat
Did you know that, in 1755, Portugal suffered a catastrophic disaster so severe that it cast a long shadow over politics, religion, philosophy, and science?
During an All Saints’ Day mass in Lisbon in that fateful year, an 8.5-magnitude earthquake collapsed cathedrals, triggered a 20-foot tsun…
By Jason von Meding, Senior Lecturer in Disaster Risk Reduction, University of Newcastle; Hari Darshan Shrestha, Associate professor Disaster Management and structural Engineering; Humayun Kabir, Professor, DRR expert, University of Dhaka; Iftekhar Ahmed, Senior Lecturer, University of Newcastle
In April 2015 the…
By Sarah Fecht
Breezy Point isn’t next to the beach—it more or less is the beach. It’s a community built on sand. Occupying the Rockaway Peninsula that juts out of Queens, NY and into the Atlantic Ocean, residents are never more than a few minutes’ walk to the brackish bays that surround the thin strip of land. The flat landscape and many of the alley…
La presente publicación constituye una parte de la Guía 5 Evaluación y Rehabilitación de Estructuras, la cual a su vez es parte de los documentos producto del proyecto DIPECHO-NEC, "Fortalecimiento de capacidades institucionales y comunitarias a nivel nacional y local, para la reducción de la vulnerabilidad frente a eventos sísmicos en el Ecuador”.
Est…
GFDRR’s Resilient Recovery initiative is involved in every major disaster, helping affected countries assess damage as well as economic losses and needs, and planning recovery. From typhoons in the Philippines to earthquakes in Nepal, the program has a record of supporting governments to rebuild lives and create a safer future through resilient recovery…
The purpose of the policy is to establish minimum standards for Public Assistance projects to promote resiliency and achieve risk reduction under the authority of the Stafford Act §§ 323 and 406(e) (42 U.S.C. §§ 5165a and 5172) and 44 CFR § 206, subpart M.
Integration of nationally recognized consensus-based building codes and standards into Public Ass…