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Internal Australian Defence Force (ADF) briefing notes from last year, obtained by the ABC under Freedom of Information, also predict the military may be forced to increase patrols in Australia's northern waters to deal with "sea-borne migration" sparked by rising sea levels in the Indo-Pacific.
One document warns that climate change c…
By KumKum Dasgupta
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While the Patnaik government did well to weather Cyclone Fani — the state mobilised resources and personnel to evacuate more than a million people — and save lives, the challenges ahead of the state now will be equally gargantuan. “While restoring infrastructure will be one aspect of the challenge, rebuilding lives of poor peo…
By Julianne Liebenguth
The frontlines of climate change are the world’s shorelines. “It goes without saying that people living in coastal communities are already observing impacts,” said Erin Derrington, a coastal resources specialist working in the Northern Mariana Islands, at a recent Wilson Center event, the third in a series on coastal resilience…
In 2017, communities in Southern Albania were severely affected by floods due to late flood warnings and a limited evacuation process. Since 2019, the Albanian Red Cross and the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies have worked with these communities as part of the Zurich Flood Resilience Alliance to strengthen flood resilienc…
The research aims to formulate disaster mitigation measures to reduce the damages caused by the volcanic eruption of Mount Gamalama and identify plans for evacuation routes in disaster-prone areas. Effective mitigation planning is needed for communities living in areas prone to disasters, including natural calamities such as volcanic eruptions. The deve…
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Precision and steadfast implementation of poverty relief policies led to better disaster preparedness [in Yushu Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture], with marked improvement in health, transportation and emergency shelter infrastructure.
Better infrastructure
From 2016 to 2018, a total of 3,806 km of roads were built in Yushu, improving transportatio…
The 2019 edition of the World Water Development Report (WWDR 2019) entitled ‘Leaving No One Behind’ seeks to inform policy and decision-makers, inside and outside the water community, how improvements in water resources management and access to water supply and sanitation services are essential to overcoming poverty and addressing various other social a…
By Fiona Anciano, Senior Lecturer, and Laurence Piper, Professor of Political Studies
Recent devastating flooding in parts of South Africa as well as the second massive cyclone to batter neighbouring Mozambique and Zimbabwe in just two months has raised alarm bells about the effect of climate change on the region.
Research shows that extreme weat…
Date: February 24, 2021
Time: 11:00 am (EST)
Plataform: Zoom. Registration link: https://undrr.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJcsduGppzsjE9BmlsQJiD1PGX9xTvp69UmE
Event available in English and Spanish
In the Americas and the Caribbean, sustainable development is linked to the development of their cities. In an urban region, cities are the scena…
By Rishika Pardikar
Search operations are still underway to find those declared missing following the Uttarakhand disaster on 7 February 2021.
“As of now [18 March], we have found 74 bodies and 130 people are still missing,” said Swati S. Bhadauria, district magistrate in Chamoli, Uttarakhand, India. Chamoli is the district wh…
By 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…
How action driven by science, policy, engineering and planning could future-proof the Garden State
It’s 2050 and the sea level along New Jersey’s oceanfront and bays is 1.5 feet higher than it was at the turn of the century. That may not sound like much, but it’s a major increase considering the daily high tides and occasional hurricanes and nor’easter…