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Displaying 15 of about 177 resultsThe project Sheltering From a Gathering Storm has generated information on the costs and benefits of climate resilient shelter designs. This information is purposed to contribute to transformative changes necessary to make communities more resilient to future disasters.
Using cost-benefit analysis, this applied research project has produced outpu…
This brief explores how community-based approaches to school construction can improve local livelihoods, increase community satisfaction and expand children’s access to education. Yet many development partners and government bodies fail to ensure that community-based school construction results in safer schools. These groups also miss opportunities…
The Kyrgyz Republic is located in a highly seismic region subjected to devastating earthquakes that have caused loss of life, destroyed homes and ruined livelihoods in historical and recent times. This Seismic Risk Reduction Strategy provides guidance to the government of the Kyrgyz Republic and other key stakeholders to prioritize a range of risk reduc…
This report of the commission describes how the state of Texas responded to the disaster, and how Texans began the long road to recovery.
The report is the product of months of effort by the commission and its many partners, based on hundreds of hours of interviews and after-action reports. It provides a detailed account of the storm a…
This report forms part of the output from Project A9 entitled “Cost-Effective Mitigation Strategy Development for Building Related Earthquake Risk” within the Bushfire and Natural Hazards Cooperative Research Centre.
It builds on previous work and provides the experimental estimates for different components of economic loss that might…
Objective and Purpose of the Assignment
Fourth primary education development program (PEDP4) is to provide quality education to all children of Bangladesh from pre-primary up to Grade 5 through an efficient, inclusive and equitable education system. The result areas of the programs are 1: Quality (Curriculum, Textbooks and Teaching-Learning Materials,…
This paper presents spatiotemporal analysis of a global dataset of fatal non-seismic landslides, covering the period from January 2004 to December 2016. The data show that in total 55997 people were killed in 4862 distinct landslide events. The spatial distribution of landslides is heterogeneous, with Asia representing the dominant geographical area. Th…
This bill amends the Earthquake Hazards Reduction Act of 1977 to expand activities under the National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program to include:
gathering information on community resilience (i.e., the ability of a community to prepare for, recover from, and adapt to earthquakes);
publishing a systematic set of maps of active faults and folds,…
By Sandi Doughton
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Now, results are in from the M9 project, a four-year effort to better estimate shaking in Seattle from a magnitude 9 Cascadia quake — and the news is not reassuring. Researchers found the sedimentary basin under the city can amplify the type of ground motion that’s hardest on high-rises by a factor of two to five — mu…
By Kimberly Veklerov
The Oakland City Council on Friday unanimously passed an ordinance that will require property owners to add seismic retrofits to soft-story apartment buildings in the next six years.
The city law applies to certain types of old, wood-frame residences with at least two stories and five or more units. Soft…
The revised Building Code for the Cook Islands and the newly-developed Strategic Roadmap for Emergency Management (SREM) were both launched today (Tuesday, 18 December 2018) by the Minister for Internal Affairs Sports, Police and Office of the Ombudsman, Hon Vaine Makiroa.
These two Cook Islands projects were made possible under the €19.57 million ACP-…
Nicola Allen is a woman with sparkling eyes and an energetic smile, but her face turns somber when she thinks back on September 6 of last year, the day Irma, a category five hurricane, wrecked her country. Her house flooded, she lost all her belongings including her furniture and she ‘was very, very scared’ for her five-month-old son and 10-year-ol…
In 2017 alone, 318 major natural disasters affected 96 million people in 122 countries causing more than 300 billion dollars. Strengthening our collective efforts to ensure disaster and climate resilient education access, safe drinking water, and children’s health will not only reduce economic losses, it will also protect and even trigger more econ…
By Forbes Tompkins and Matthew Fuchs
Updated October 12
If it wasn’t already clear, the past two years have emphasized that Americans need better mechanisms for dealing with extreme flooding. Hurricanes Harvey, Irma, Maria, Florence, and Michael flooded hundreds of thousands of homes, destroyed roads, hospitals, schools, and other critical infrastruct…
By Lorenzo Piccio, GFDRR
As extreme weather becomes the “new normal” in the Balkans, governments and communities across the region are striving to better understand the climate and disaster risks they face so that they can put in place the appropriate policies and strategies.
It was against this backdrop that hundreds of experts and pra…