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Displaying 75 of about 104 resultsBy Giriraj Amarnath
Farmers who took part in a high-tech flood insurance scheme in Bihar, India, shared a total payout of INR 7.52 lakhs (USD $10,500) following the 2019 monsoon. The season, which runs from June to September, brought devastating floods to large parts of India, Bangladesh and Nepal. In Bihar, 13 districts were affected, including M…
BOOTCAMP OVERVIEW:
Rapid population growth and urbanization coupled with extreme climatic events are causing a rapid increase in the vulnerability of communities exposed to hazardous events all over the world. Human, economic, livelihood and ecological losses from hazardous events keep increasing. Achieving sustainable development and building urban re…
About Asian Disaster Preparedness Center
ADPC is an intergovernmental regional organization with a vision to reduce disaster and climate risk impacts on communities and countries in Asia and the Pacific by working with governments, development partners, international organizations, NGOs, civil society, private sector, media, and other key stakeholders.…
The Group on Earth Observations (GEO) Disaster Risk Reduction Working Group (DRR WG) is developing and implementing a coherent and crosscutting approach within GEO to advance the use of Earth observations (EO) in support of national and local disaster risk reduction and resilience efforts. Space-based and in situ Earth observations already play critical…
Most of the building stock that will be needed over the next century in Africa is yet to be built.
Building better the post-COVID era
By Olivia Nielsen and Sabine Kast
Most of the building stock that will be needed over the next century in Africa is yet to be built. As the last continent to urbanize, Sub-Saharan Africa has a unique opportunity to l…
This study constructed a 1 km × 1 km rainstorm and flood disaster zoning map for Xinjiang, China. To do so, storm flood disaster (SFD) data of Xinjiang from 1984 to 2017 at the township level, as well as information on basic natural and social risk are collected collated. With the help of the compiled inventory data, a disaster risk asses…
This document makes the case for community-based approaches to flood risk mapping in Africa and highlights its effectiveness in localized settings, as demonstrated by the experience of the Kenya Red Cross Society in assisting Kenyan Counties to develop flood risk maps
Data collection is a crucial first step which involves…
What cannot be measured cannot be managed. Poor water management poses major risks to agriculture, industry and local communities. However, there is a critical lack of information available about local water conditions — making better management difficult. WRI’s Water Program studies local water data and governance and shares best practices in order to…
Fuel condition (e.g. moisture content, horizontal and vertical continuity and the quantity or load) affect flammability and therefore is a key determinant of the ease of ignition and the spread rate of a fire. Many research institutions and management services are investing an important amount of resources on fieldbased fuel condition monitoring to unde…
The African Risk Capacity’s (ARC) Africa RiskView (ARV) tool combines Earth Observation (EO) data with population vulnerability data to provide an early-warning model that measures food insecurity and estimates response costs, enabling decision-makers to plan and respond quickly and efficiently to drought stresses.
ARC is an agency of the African Union…
Research on evacuation behavior in natural disasters provides a valuable contribution in the development of effective short- and long-term strategies in disaster risk management (DRM). Many studies address evacuation simulation utilizing mathematical modeling approaches or GIS-based simulation. In this contribution, it is performed a detailed analysis o…
A new U.S. Geological Survey map of Puerto Rico shows the relative risks of landslides due to the kind of intense rainfall brought on by hurricanes. It identifies 20% of the island as at high risk, 9% at very high risk, and 1% at extremely high risk of landslides under those conditions.
About 40% of the island is id…
By Wallace Boone Law; contributed by Megan Lewis
On the night of January 9 2020, my wife and I secured our Kangaroo Island home and anxiously monitored the South Australian Country Fire Service (CFS) website for bushfire advice.
After many horrific weeks of bushfires, the winds had again shifted, and the fire front began a slow, nightmarish…
The UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction listed 10 reasons businesses should reduce
their disaster exposure, including risk factoring, which cannot be achieved without historical
data about hazards, their locations, magnitudes, and frequencies. Substantial hazard
data are reported by newspapers, which could add value to disaster management decision
mak…
Islamabad - The Aga Khan Agency for Habitat (AKAH) won the World Habitat Award 2020 Gold Award today for its “Integrating Indigenous Knowledge and Technology for Safer Habitat” project.
In the winning project, the Aga Khan Agency for Habitat in Pakistan pioneered the use of Hazard Vulnerability and Risk Assessments (HVRAs), which integrate science, tec…