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Displaying 15 of about 84 resultsGENEVA, 1 February 2012 - An insightful new report on the 2010 Haiti earthquake offers a scathing critique of an international community which “has much to learn from the response in Haiti where it has shown an ability to repeat its errors and shortcomings from past disasters.”
Two years after the event, the PAHO Report: Health response to the earthqua…
Seismic risk has taken on a different meaning this week with the trial opening in Italy of six scientists charged with failing to predict the L’Aquila earthquake that killed 309 people in 2009 and left 70,000 people homeless. The scientists and one official are charged with manslaughter.
The trial puts under the spotlight one of the most difficult area…
GENEVA, 1 October 2013 – Finland is set to follow in the footsteps of the UK this week and launch a peer review of its national implementation of the Hyogo Framework for Action (HFA), the global agreement on disaster risk reduction.
The 4th European Forum for Disaster Risk Reduction (EFDRR) heard that Finland is aiming for the same impact as the UK’s p…
GENEVA, 25 April 2013 - The Head of the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR), Margareta Wahlström, today extended condolences to the families of those who have lost loved ones in the collapse of an eight-storey building in Dhaka, Bangladesh, and reiterated that Dhaka is also in a high risk earthquake zone.
In meetings last year in Dhaka, Ms.…
In an airplane hangar in Miami, engineers are recreating some of the most powerful hurricane winds to ever strike land. These Category 5 winds can shatter a test building in the blink of an eye.
Yet they aren’t powerful enough to keep up with nature.
When engineers built the Wall of Wind test facility 10 years ago at Florida Internatio…
The Center for Security Studies (CSS) at ETH Zurich is a center of competence for Swiss and international security policy. It offers security policy expertise in research, teaching, and consultancy.
Project background
The Risk and Resilience Team of the Think Tank at CSS is engaged in research and policy consulting on a range of fi…
This document was prepared as part of the assignment, commissioned by the Global Initiative on Disaster Risk Management, to assist countries in Latin American and the Caribbean in organizing their infrastructure in terms of disaster risks. It is structured as follows: The process used to construct the assessment and prioritization tool is explained. The…
The use of science to reduce the effects of future natural hazards such as floods, droughts and earthquakes must be stepped up and adopted more widely, according to a newly published Foresight report.
The report, 'Reducing Risks of Future Disasters: Priorities for Decision Makers' sets out how the threat of future disasters resulting from natural haza…
By Rachelle Chong
Wildfires are growing in intensity and frequency, escalating the threat posed to Americans — and the critical utility infrastructure we rely on. According to a report from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, weather and climate disasters cost the U.S. $91 billion in 2018.
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Existing advanced technologies ca…
By Chris Adam
System uses artificial intelligence to help officials identify, repair structural damage before catastrophic incidents
A tiny crack in a nuclear reactor, skyscraper, bridge or dam can cause catastrophic consequences. The Minneapolis bridge collapse, which killed 13 people in 2007, is just one example of what can happen when struct…
Recent hurricane seasons left many communities wondering if this is this the new normal. Digital infrastructure designed for citizen data collection may help these communities increase resilience.
By Julia Hart, Christina Bandaragoda, and Graciela Ramirez-Toro
On 20 September 2017, Hurricane Maria made landfall in Puerto Rico as a categor…
By Mickey McCarter
During the recent winter meeting of the National Governors Association (NGA), U.S. governors pressed for a comprehensive federal infrastructure plan that would provide financial incentives for states to rebuild and reinforce infrastructure.
Infrastructure resiliency depends on the deployment of modern technologies includin…
By Mahesh Sudhakaran
The Weather Company Vegetation Management – Predict solution combines AI and analytics to help utility companies reduce risk while improving reliability, operational efficiency and customer satisfaction
For utilities with a large percentage of overhead conductors, vegetation management is a serious challenge. Trees and…
This paper proposes a scientific concept of digital twin-driven systematic construction of intelligent disaster prevention and mitigation for infrastructure (IDPMI), which intends to clarify the potential of digital twin (DT) in disaster management. Natural hazards, which have the potential to cause catastrophic damage and loss to infrastructure, h…
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Although camera systems didn’t help early detection of the Dixie Fire, the technology is one of the most promising to come from research labs and vendors, McGranaghan said. Artificial intelligence software will tighten identification of fires by filtering out false positives, like a column of dust kicked up by a truck on a mountain road, and comb…