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Displaying 45 of about 257 resultsIn response to climate change, which is at the forefront of concerns for cities and territories worldwide, SIRADEL is launching its brand new “Urban Climate Resilience Toolkit” to combat the increasingly dangerous impacts on our environment and communities.
Supporting territories in their environmental and digital transitions for more than 10 years, SI…
This report provides a snapshot of the status of building regulatory frameworks in the Sub-Saharan Africa region. It aims to support policy makers, city officials, building industry professionals, researchers, and planners in identifying entry points for national dialogue to improve building regulatory frameworks and implementation mechanisms.The recomm…
As New Zealand considers how to better prepare for a future affected by climate change, the insurance sector needs to be part the discussion on where and how we build our homes.
This involvement should include input into future building standards. Insurers should also play a key role in deciding which areas of New Zealand are removed from residential u…
This article aims to contribute to the research on flood vulnerability in of historic urban areas by presenting and discussing the application of an index-based methodology specifically tailored to assess flood risk in historic urban centres. Around 45% of natural hazards reported worldwide are related to floods, and current indications show that exposu…
The "Earthquake Risk Reduction and Prevention Planning Project" was launched with the joint intervention of Bursa Metropolitan Municipality and the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA). A team of 12 experts from Japan and the northwestern municipality will work in the field for 42 months for a more disaster-resilient Bursa.Bursa, located in the…
Researchers of Kiel University model future urban development on European coasts.Europe's coasts are densely populated and already affected by the impacts of sea level rise. In addition to traditional, cost-intensive coastal protection measures, spatial land use planning strategies are becoming increasingly important to protect coastal communities from…
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As part of the MCR2030 Digital Resilience Webinar Series, the third and last webinar of the series will focus on how policy makers can harness the emerging opportunities of digitalisation, as well as the large offer of tools and resources available, to support municipal and institutional governance and urban pl…
Given the death toll, it’s important we consider the impacts of Cyclone Gabrielle sensitively. But we must also begin looking into the history of land-use and planning decisions in areas worst hit by landslides.
One such area is the beach community at Muriwai in West Auckland, where two volunteer firefighters were tragically killed in a landslide.
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This policy brief on COVID-19 preparedness at local level provides recommendations to cities on how to become more resilient in a world that is constantly changing. The University of Huddersfield is the leading partner of UNDRR in this effort, which also includes contributions from several RCC partners, such as UNDP and WHO, and the MCR2030 Resilience H…
As locals continue to mourn the loss of more than 2,100 people, a mammoth search and rescue effort is underway in quake-struck Morocco.The 6.8 magnitude earthquake struck at 11:11 pm on Friday night, local time, with an epicentre in the Atlas Mountains about 75km southwest of Marrakech. The quake shook the northeast African and southwest Mediterranean r…
Large earthquakes not only directly damage buildings but also trigger debris flows, which cause secondary damage to buildings, forming a more destructive earthquake-debris flow disaster chain. A quantitative assessment of building vulnerability is essential for damage assessment after a disaster and for pre-disaster prevention. Using mechanical analysis…
The epicentre of Morocco’s devastating earthquake on 8 September was in the High Atlas Mountains, about 71km south-west of Marrakesh. Moina Spooner, from The Conversation Africa, asked Jesús Galindo-Zaldivar, who has been carrying out research on the formation of the Atlas mountains and the geology of the area, about the factors which led to this situat…
Register hereAboutGRRN Partners, CEDEUS and CIGIDEN are pleased to announce the II International Conference on Resilient Cities from the Global South. This in-person conference seeks to address the current challenges of cities. These cities challenge us to find new ways of living together, improving resilience to natural threats and adapting to climate…
This paper analyzes the root causes and the key triggering factors of the 2022 Petrópolis landslide disaster in Rio de Janeiro state, Brazil by assessing the spatial relationship of landslide occurrence with various environmental factors. Rainfall data were retrieved from 1977 to 2022 (a combination of ground weather stations and the Climate Hazards Gro…
Adaptations to flood-proof individual properties (referred to here as property-level adaptation, PLA) provide a potential means of reducing flood risk at isolated properties, whilst conventional community-scale flood protection (CSFP) is usually more economical in protecting high-density urban spaces. This paper develops a risk-based framework to identi…