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On October 5, 1954, a tropical storm formed in the southern Caribbean, upgrading to a hurricane within a day. On October 15, it arrived in Toronto and the rain began. Hurricane Hazel would go down in history as a disaster that helped to shape the city.
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Toronto recovered, burying its dead, weeping with the bereaved, and support…
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Access to finance remains one of the biggest hurdles to reducing risk and build resilience. This webinar aims to introduce useful tools and resources to enhance local governments’ capacity in developing bankable projects for financing key DRR and resilience actions. In thi…
As communities in Canada and the U.S. Northwest break heat records, cities long accustomed to dangerous heat have ideas on coping.
By Laurie Goering and Zoe Lieberman
LONDON, June 30 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Seattle, Portland and other cities in the U.S. Pacific Northwest and Canada are blasting past heat records this week, facing sweltering tem…
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Launched in September 2020, the City Climate Finance Gap Fund (Gap Fund) aims to help cities in low and middle-income countries strategize, plan and prepare climate mitigation and adaptation projects. The Gap Fund helps cities at an early stage by offering free technical and advisory services to pr…
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Asia-Pacific is the most disaster-prone region in the world, and increasingly, those disasters are occurring in urban settings. Cities face multiple hazards that threaten their social and economic development, these include storms, floods, heatwaves, earthquakes, and of course, pandemics.
Co-created by 11 international org…
To better manage flood risks, there is a need to understand the risks as a function of hazard, exposure and vulnerability
Building a flood-resilient city requires the government to adopt a preventive rather than a reactive approach
Only pursuing a structural approach to flooding, e.g. building an embankment, may provide a false sense of security ins…
By Maitreyi Bordia Das and Victoria Stanley
March 8th marked International Women’s Day. This year’s theme “Women in leadership: Achieving an equal future in a COVID-19 world” recognizes the tremendous contribution of women and girls in shaping a more equal recovery from the pandemic.
Women are at the forefront of the COVID-19 response, managing an…
By Thomas Boynton and Madeline Flynn
Population booms and climate change are changing the dynamics of effective urban water security
Record low temperatures in Houston, Texas, led to the implementation of boil water advisories throughout the city and ultimately hindered Houstonians’ access to clean drinking water
As extreme weather increases in bot…
By Helen Lock
Over a million homes were damaged by flooding in Bangladesh in 2020.
Access to food, shelter, and clean water are the fundamental building blocks of life.
Add in education, health care, and economic opportunities and you’ve got some of the key ingredients for lifting communities out of poverty.
But work on ending poverty globally must…
Alternate reality simulations can predict a variety of complex situations, with insights from people who are not always heard
By Rina Chandran
BANGKOK - Simulations of events ranging from climate disasters to misinformation campaigns on social media can help cities tackle problems that are both complex and hard to predict as they recover from the coro…
By Jun Erik Rentschler, Christoph Klaiber and Jian Vun
Over the past 20 years, floods have displaced more Indonesians than any other disaster type, causing significant damage and disrupting local economies. The poor and vulnerable often bear the brunt of flood hazards and are affected disproportionately. They tend to live in hazardous areas such a…
By Usmaan Farooqui
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Last Friday, the mercury climbed to nearly 40 degrees Celsius in Karachi. The Pakistan Meteorological Department had issued an advisory earlier in the week warning temperatures would rise after March 30, 2021. It’s hard to take a warning like that without a sense of impending dread. After all, it was only six years ago when a…
The disaster risk reduction (DRR) status report provides a snapshot of the state of DRR in Malaysia under the four priorities of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030. It also highlights progress and challenges associated with ensuring coherence among the key global frameworks at the national level; and makes recommendations f…
By Jennifer J. Sara, Dominik Stillhart, and Ted Chaiban
People living in densely populated cities are supported by an intricate mesh of water, sanitation, health and electricity systems. When these systems are attacked and neglected for prolonged periods of time, when large numbers of people take refuge in cities –…
By Haris Sanahuja, Juliana Castaño-Isaza, Carolina Rogelis, and Alessandra Treuherz
Panama City has tripled in size during the last 25 years as a result of rapid and unplanned urbanization. Its geographic location, combined with a lack of adequate land use planning, deficient drainage systems, and weak local governanc…