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Chennai, the capital city of the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu, literally became an island in December 2015. The airport was inundated. Trains and flights had to be cancelled, cutting off the city for a few days from the rest of India.
The Chennai floods claimed more than 500 lives and economic losses were pegged at 7.4 billion d…
A new online guide launched today by the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) explains how communities can better protect themselves from natural disasters through resilient landscape planning and design.The Resilient Design Guide can be found here.
According to the guide, the goal of resilient landscape planning and design is to retro…
This paper is an attempt to involve stakeholders and civil society in decision-making with regard to policy, planning and implementation direction in flood management issues and lays down a framework for a rational approach. It introduces the elements of stakeholder and society participation in decision-making and addresses the need for an enabling envi…
El alcalde Emilio Graterón, vecinas/os, representantes de la Red Empresarial del municipio de Chacao, y CESAP, firmaron hoy el Acuerdo Municipal para la Reducción de Riesgos, una alianza sólida y de amplia participación destinada a garantizar las acciones que deben ejecutarse para continuar los esfuerzos de las políticas públicas puestas en marcha y ava…
Background and Introduction
Over the past 20 years disasters have affected 4.4 billion people, caused USD 2 trillion of damage and killed 1.3 million people. Disasters affected people living in developing countries and the most vulnerable communities within those countries. Over 95 percent of people killed by disasters are from developing count…
The disaster risk reduction (DRR) status report provides a snapshot of the state of DRR in Australia 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 for s…
Colombia. Más de 100 representantes de siete municipios del centro y norte del departamento del Valle del Cauca (Cartago, Zarzal, Tulua, Bugalagrande, Obando, Andalucía y la Victoria), iniciaron el pasado 6 de julio en las instalaciones de la Universidad del Valle en el municipio de Cartago, el Diplomado en Gestión de Riesgos con énfasis en Reducción de…
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Tegucigalpa - El Gobierno de la República invertirá 600 millones de lempiras para reducir el riesgo a desastres a nivel nacional y en comunidades vulnerables de 20 municipios comprendidos en la región del Valle de Sula, por medio del Proyecto Gestión de Riesgos de Desastres (PGRD), coordinado por COPECO.
El PGRD, se oficializó hoy, en una…
Chacao - Actuar coordinadamente es la clave para una mayor eficiencia a la hora de responder ante eventos adversos. Con el propósito de afinar una respuesta oportuna ante incidentes de pequeña o gran magnitud, Protección Civil y Ambiente Chacao impartió el Curso Básico de Sistema Comando de Incidentes a la Brigada de Emergencias del Centro Comercial Sam…
Johannesburg - In spite of the political and financial turmoil that Zimbabwe faces, the country seems to be on the right track in adopting strategies to address the effects of climate change. But these strategies tend to have a strong rural bias, overlooking the fact that almost half of the country now lives in urban areas, according to a joint review o…
Ginebra, Suiza - Con una participación importante de delegados de los gobiernos de Ecuador, Cuba y Brasil, así como distintos representantes de estados, organizaciones del sistema de Naciones Unidas y de la sociedad civil a nivel global, se presentó públicamente la Guía “Acciones para la Resiliencia de la Niñez y Juventud”, dirigida a los gobiernos loca…
This synthesis report provides countries and all stakeholders with an overview of the issues emerging to date on the consultations and development of a post-2015 framework for disaster risk reduction (HFA2). The key purpose of this report is to provide the basis for continued consultations, and to inform a draft HFA2 following the Fourth Session of the…
This book provides guidance, policy orientation and inspiration, as well as serving as a reference for lessons on how to reduce risk and vulnerability to hazards and to meet the challenges of tomorrow. It is intended for people who have an interest in and practice disaster risk management and sustainable development.
Natural hazards can affect anyone,…
BANGKOK, 20 September 2013 – Chaiyaphon Phupharat knows what he is talking about when he speaks about disability and how people living with disabilities are more vulnerable when disasters happen.
In 1995, when he was 33 years old, Mr Chaiyaphon was involved in a road accident and has been in a wheelchair since. The incident prompted him to join the Coun…
GENEVA, 23 May 2013 - The three-day 4th Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction, attended by a record 3,500 people and representatives from 172 governments, ended today with a call for "the immediate start of work to develop targets and indicators to monitor the reduction of risk" in the Chair's Summary at the closing plenary.
Global Platform Chai…