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Displaying 45 of about 695 resultsThis articlehighlights the process and lessons learned from the Vulnerability Assessment and Climate Resilient Road Strategy of the Samoan road network, and outlines a replicable approach for small island nations with acute capacity challenges that seek to balance analytical rigour with the need for practicality.
In Pacific Island Countries, high vulne…
The conference motto for IDRC Davos 2008 is: Public-private partnership – key for integral risk management and climate change adaptation.
IDRC Davos 2008 will address global problems and attract participants from all over the globe. We expect more than 1300 participants from 130 countries.
The conference will take an integrated, multidisciplinary appro…
Background
Risk Analysis 2012 is the eighth international conference on risk analysis and hazard mitigation. Covering a series of important topics of current research interest and with many practical applications, the conference is concerned with all aspects of risk analysis and hazard mitigation, associated with both natural and anthropogenic haza…
Sustainable flood risk management is about maximising both social and economic resilience against flooding, by protecting and working with the environment, in a way which is fair and affordable both now and in the future. Resilience to flooding can be increased through a variety of measures, including structural (flood defence), non-structural (flood wa…
Many countries face the challenge of strengthening and expanding electricity generation and infrastructure while incorporating climate resilience and greenhouse gas (GHG) reduction targets into long-term power planning. Increasingly, climate change impacts threaten investments in renewable energy, particularly hydropower, and thus compromise the ability…
This study finds that natural shocks—storms in particular—are a significant and often leading cause for power supply disruptions. This finding is based on 20 years of high frequency (i.e. daily) data on power outages and climate variables in 28 countries—Bangladesh, the United States and 26 European countries.
More specifically: (1) Natural shocks are…
Transport infrastructure is exposed to natural hazards all around the world. Here, the authors present the first global estimates of multi-hazard exposure and risk to road and rail infrastructure. Results reveal that ~27% of all global road and railway assets are exposed to at least one hazard and ~7.5% of all assets are exposed to a 1/100 ye…
Climate variability and change can pose risks to the integrity and performance of low-emission development (LED) investments, yet most LED planners don’t yet routinely consider the potential effects of climate on their programs and projects. Fortunately, a variety of tools have been developed in the past several years that planners can now use to determ…
The main objective of a planned series of Resilience Shift round-tables is to engage with senior-level practitioners, with expertise associated with the built environment, on the concept of critical infrastructure resilience. The purpose is to explore how infrastructure systems might be impacted by a range of possible shocks and stresses, how various de…
These guidelines provide step-by-step instructions on how to supplement historic climate data with specific, regional, forward-looking climate change data in the design of New York City's facilities. Resilient design is intended to become an integral part of the project planning process for city agencies and designers. All new projects and substantial i…
Cities and the communities who live in them are significantly impacted by climate shifts in both means and extremes. These are already affecting the New York metropolitan region and will increasingly do so in the coming decades. This New York City Panel on Climate Change 2019 Report (NPCC3) provides co‐generated tools and methods for implementing r…
The economy of the United Republic of Tanzania is growing fast but remains vulnerable to disasters, which are likely to worsen with climate change. Its transportation system, which mainly consists of roads, often get disrupted by floods. How could the resilience of the transportation infrastructures be improved?
The authors formulate a new type of mode…
The power sector is both highly vulnerable to natural hazards and a priority for any country’s recovery and reconstruction. After Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico in 2017, most of the power grid was down. One year and tens of billions of dollars later some customers were yet to be reconnected to the main grid. This type of long and widespread power outage…
Coastal development and climate change are dramatically increasing the risks of flooding, erosion, and extreme weather events. Coral reefs and other coastal ecosystems act as natural defenses against coastal hazards, but their degradation increases risk to people and property. Environmental degradation, however, has rarely been quantified as a driver of…
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The 5th International Symposium on the Effects of Surface Geology on Seismic Motion (ESG5) will be hold on August 2016 and take place in Taipei, Taiwan. The symposium will discuss the site effect related topics especially focus on main theme which is “Challenges of Applying Ground Motion Simulation to Seismology and Earthquake Engi…