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Displaying 104 of about 104 resultsFive years since the adoption of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030, the concept of building resilience amongst communities to flooding is still a major concern in developing countries. This is evident from the ever-increasing flood events across Kenya and the inability of communities affected by floods to act appropriately prior…
This is the inaugural edition of the Ecological Threat Register (ETR), which covers 157 independent states and territories. The ETR is unique in that it combines measures of resilience with the most comprehensive ecological data available to shed light on the countries least likely to cope with extreme ecological shocks, now and into the future.
Key re…
To meet the Asian Development Bank's (ADB) requirement for more detailed data on floods in the Philippines, the EO4SD CR cluster developed an automated IMS.
The ADB needed to build a more detailed picture of flood response in specific areas surrounding its projects. This allows for better planning for infrastructure investment in flood…
This map illustrates satellite-detected surface waters over Ayeyarwady, Bago (West), and Yangon Region of Myanmar as observed from a Sentinel-1 image acquired on 5 Aug 2020. Within the analyzed area of about 37,000 km2, a total of about 2,300 km2 of lands appear to be flooded. Based on Worldpop population data and the detected surface waters, about 340,…
By Noah Smith
Hurricane Iota walloped Nicaragua last week with Category 4 winds of 155 miles per hour. The storm, which Nicaragua’s government declared the strongest ever to hit the nation, came on the heels of the devastating Hurricane Eta. Eta struck Nicaragua on November 3 and killed at least 178 people in Central America.
Iota’s current death toll…
By Eisen Bernardo
An effective approach for risk mapping and adaptation planning is being implemented in various important agricultural regions in Vietnam, in order to help farmers mitigate climate-related risks.
With the successful implementation of the Climate-Smart Mapping and Adaptation Planning (CS-MAP) in the provinces of Mekong River Delta…
KOBE – The Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030, the global roadmap to reduce disaster losses and strengthening the processes for doing so by 2030, highlights the pivotal role of stakeholders working in science, engineering, technology, and innovation (SETI). In particular, it states that science and traditional knowledge are…
Community collaboration and high-resolution maps are keys to effective flood risk management, according to civil engineers and social scientists at the University of California, Irvine and other institutions.
"The impacts of flooding continue to escalate in the U.S. and around the world, and the main culprit is urban growth in harm's way, wit…
By Adam Green
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Reducing urban risk requires disaster-informed spatial planning, building codes and infrastructure, as well as clear plans for post-disaster response. This relies heavily on data that is often patchy or non-existent, especially in less-developed nations.
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However, disaster response experts have begun utilising non-traditional da…
SERVIR, a joint program between NASA and the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), has partnered with relief organizations and the United Nations, to produce maps that could explain locust behavior. The maps provide useful information on environmental conditions, such as soil moisture and vegetation, that can influence locust life cycles. B…
The Mongolian National Agency for Meteorology and Environmental Monitoring (NAMEM) has developed a extreme winter (dzud) risk map for the country using MODIS satellite data, among other resources. The map shows that over 50 per cent of the country are at risk of a severe winter. Following the analysis, the International Federation of…
The monsoon floods in the Hindu Kush Himalayan (HKH) region are worsening the humanitarian crises caused by the COVID-19 pandemic and the recent Cyclone Amphan in Bangladesh and India. Millions of people have been affected in Nepal, India (Bihar and Assam), and Bangladesh. The crisis is far from over, with more monsoon rain forecast in the coming days a…
Today marks the launch of the inauguralEcological Threat Register (ETR), that measures the ecological threats countries are currently facing and provides projections to 2050. The report uniquely combines measures of resilience with the most comprehensive ecological data available, to shed light on the countries least likely to cope with extreme ecologic…
By Laura Hautala
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Programmers have been using software to analyze wildland fires and eventually make projections of where they might spread next, since computers came into existence. But following the fire at Hungry Horse, which was part of the larger Blackfoot Lake Complex Fire, the software programs written by government agencies and priva…