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Displaying 105 of about 806 resultsCEDIM presents report on the flood disaster in Rhineland-Palatinate and North Rhine-Westphalia – Damage might amount to more than EUR 10 billion
To better estimate flood risks, risk maps should also consider historical data. This is recommended by researchers of CEDIM – Center for Disaster Management and Risk Reduction Technology of Karlsruhe Institute…
The Caribbean’s fragile economy is being battered by the pandemic that is keeping tourists from its tropical beaches and leaving heavily-indebted countries ill-prepared to cope with violent hurricanes and other emergencies, say experts.
Gnawing away at the d…
Trinidadian entrepreneur Stacey-Ann Pi Osoria has built her one-woman business on emergencies. Selling inflatable sandbags, flood barriers and mobile shelters, she provides the vital equipment and training her clients need to reduce their disaster risk.
But when COVID-19 hit,…
When you first see the sheer magnitude of destruction where a hurricane made landfall, “there’s usually a take-your-breath-away moment,” says Tracy Kijewski-Correa, a structural engineer at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana. But Kijewski-Correa and her colleagues catch their breath and begin their work surveying the damage inflicted on buildings a…
Risk Rating 2.0 has been called the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA)’s most significant reform in 50 years. Roughly 77% of customers of the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) nationwide will see increases in their premiums, while the other ~23% will see reductions or no change. FEMA will formally introduce Risk Rating 2.0 on…
This paper provides the first comparative assessment of uncertainties in global to world-regional scale studies of current and future coastal flood risks based on the published literature. One of the main impacts of climate change is sea-level rise leading to more frequent flooding of low lying coastal areas through higher tides, storm surges and w…
By Manuel Ansede
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There is a striking paradox taking place in Spain: temperatures are rising, but there are fewer deaths linked to extreme heat. As the epidemiologist Julio Díaz, 61, points out, “it is not the bullet that kills us, but the speed at which it travels.” While temperatures are rising, with the maximum daily temperature in summer incr…
By William John Gould, Robert Marsh, Simon Alasdair Josey, and Stuart Cunningham
Floods have caused unprecedented damage in Europe recently, while in the Chinese city of Zhengzhou, the equivalent of a year’s worth of average rainfall fell in just three days. In stark contrast, extreme heat and droughts have spawned wildfires and cau…
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Government of Indonesia
From Risk to Resilience: Towards Sustainable Development for All in a COVID-19 Transformed World
The Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction is the main global forum to assess and discuss progress on the implementation of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction. The seventh session of the Global Platf…
By David Henry
Fire managers can benefit significantly from enhanced weather predictions based on warm air masses near boreal areas in southernmost Siberia, where wildfires release high levels of carbon and methane from the thawing permafrost, according to scientists.
Active blazes in the lower Amur River basin of the Khabarov…
In collaboration with Greater Amman Municipality (GAM), UN-Habitat Jordan held a workshop last week to launch the flood risk assessment and hazard mapping study as well as the proposed flood intervention. It also addressed the outcomes of the community consultation sessions and the prioritised pilot project.
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“This project will indirectly b…
By Steve Bowen
The past year has shown the impact of interconnected events on a global scale
The prospect of a natural disaster and subsequent recovery is always a difficult endeavour for even the best prepared countries. In 2020, the volume of natural disaster events, including several that had impacts across multiple states and countries, led t…
By Jayashree Nandi
Eight eastern states of Jharkhand, Mizoram, Odisha, Chhattisgarh, Assam, Bihar, Arunachal Pradesh, and West Bengal are most vulnerable to climate change and should be prioritised for funding and efforts to capacitate them against the associated risks, a report released by some of India’s top institutes has assessed.
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Ten years of interdisciplinary studies since the disastrous Tohoku-oki earthquake have improved our knowledge of earthquake-cycle processes and hazard, but prediction of such events remains elusive.
By Naoki Uchida and Roland Bürgmannon
On 11 March 2011, a 9 to 9.1 magnitude earthquake occurred off the shore of Tohoku, Japan. This was the biggest rec…
By Kshitij Dahal, Rocky Talchabhadel, and Bhesh Raj Thapa
Just within about 20 days of June this year, 20 people died with 24 people missing, and 193 families affected by landslides and floods across the country. Landslides are major disasters in Nepal and now landslide dam outburst flood (LDOF) is also challenging. Every monsoon, we embrace a chain of…