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Displaying 790 of about 790 resultsBy Fatima Arroyo Arroyo, Urban Transport Specialist
In the buzzing, vibrant city of Freetown, you’ll find lush forests, buzzing markets, and oceans with water so blue it almost seems unreal. What you won’t find, however, is a public transportation system that’s kept up with the city’s increasingly mobile population. Professor Obafemi Davies of Fou…
Conheça o caminho percorrido por Lisboa na sua estratégia de adaptação às alterações climáticas. Lisboa, enquanto parceira do projeto RESCCUE (avaliação da resiliência das cidades), está a concorrer para uma cidade mais resiliente para quem nela reside, trabalha, estuda ou visita. No projeto participam o Serviço Municipal de Proteção Civil e o Departame…
The Myanmar Consortium for Community Resilience (MCCR), comprised of four INGOs and two UN partners have launched an 18-month project aimed at reducing the human, social, economic, and environmental losses in coastal and urban areas resulting from disasters in Myanmar. The European Union-funded consortium has been supporting disaster risk reduction and…
By Adele Peters
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The neighborhood is one of the parts of the Bay Area most at risk from flooding from rising sea levels and severe storms and from earthquakes. It’s also one of nine areas reimagined by teams of architects and designers in a year-long competition to create a “blueprint of resilience” for the region (largely focused on climate chan…
AQABA, 28 April 2015 – Models of local-level disaster risk reduction and management, the Jordanian cities of Aqaba and Petra are leading an initiative for five fellow municipalities which have stepped up their own efforts to build resilience.
Sharing lessons is a key part of UNISDR's Making Cities Resilient Campaign. Officials from the municipalities o…
EAST SALFORD, United Kingdom, 13 October 12 2015 - The UK community of East Salford has over 1,400 homes and 500 businesses in Lower Broughton and Lower Kersal – all of which are at risk of flooding from the River Irwell. Salford has a long history of flooding , notably in 1946, 1954 and 1980.
In addition to public agencies investing in flood defences…
PANAMA CITY, 17 August 2015 – The global advocates network of UNISDR’s Making Cities Resilient campaign has embraced the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction and committed to scale up efforts at the local level.
A flagship project launched by UNSIDR five years ago to generate momentum for the reduction of urban risk, Making Cities Resilient (MC…
The Guide is a result of contributions from the ARISE-US Network in collaboration with the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) and the Making Cities Resilient 2030 initiative.The UNDRR Disaster Resilience Scorecard for Cities is proven to be a very helpful tool in assessing all the ‘systems of systems’ aspects of disaster resilienc…
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Coastal Alaska communities from the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta northward will see more of their buildings exposed to flooding by 2100 if they continue developing at the same location, according to new research.University of Alaska Fairbanks graduate student Richard Buzard found that 22% of structures in 46 of 55 analyzed coastal communities are in flood plai…