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Displaying 30 of about 84 resultsThe School of Environmental Sciences, Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam is organizing the Disaster, Risk and Vulnerability Conference - 2020 (DRVC 2020). In the present COVID-19 scenario the conference will be conducted through Virtual Mode on focused themes during 9–10 October and 16–17 October 2020.
The conference is in continuation of th…
Some 95% of COVID-19 cases have come from urban areas. Pandemic preparedness in cities and towns is more urgent than ever for reducing disaster risk, particularly in challenging situations where disease outbreaks could coincide with an extreme weather event.
The eastern Indian city of Kolkata has been devastated by Cyclone Amphan, which caused many dea…
After nearly a decade of lengthy damage assessment processes and relentless disasters, the *Board of National Haitian Engineers and Architects (CNIAH) now has a mobile phone app that allows a growing number of certified engineers to rapidly assess structural damage and make life-saving decisions backed by data.
Following the 2010 earthquake, disaster a…
By Steve Lundeberg
CORVALLIS, Ore. – Researchers at Oregon State University are paving the way toward greater safety for coastal residents and infrastructure by developing a better means of modeling the destructive force of tsunami waves.
Rare but potentially devastating, tsunamis can cause huge damage to coastal infrastructure, with part of the probl…
By Yun Xuan Poon
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PUB, Singapore’s National Water Agency, has built an extensive drainage system to hold rainwater, and is using IoT sensors to keep it there. The sensors monitor water levels in the drains and provide early warning on likelihood of drain overflow.
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The team at PUB uses data analytics to identify flooding hotspots in the co…
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…
ComEd and Argonne National Laboratory partnered on a milestone report that analyzes the impact of climate in future northern Illinois.
Northern Illinois traditionally enjoys four predictable seasons. The winters are notoriously cold and the summers just hot enough to make winter worthwhile. The “shoulder” seasons (spring and fall) predictably and…
Study authors at Arup say green and blue infrastructure – such as parks, gardens, ponds and lakes – hold key to cities’ ability to manage heavy rainfall and other impacts of climate change, such as extreme heat events
Call comes as COP27 in Sharm el-Sheikh enters its second week and focuses on how urban populations can increase resilience again…
New marine navigation system to increase safety, commerce and real-time observations.
Mariners sailing in and around Port Freeport — the fastest-growing port in Texas — have something to celebrate.
The seaport, located outside of Houston, is now fitted with a NOAA system that improves safe and efficient marine navigation. The technology is part of a n…
Several institutions worldwide are reflecting on the relevance of training and exercises to critical infrastructure protection and resilience. This is witnessed, for instance, by Council Directive 2008/114/EC in the EU and the Homeland Security Exercise and Evaluation Program in the US. Contributing to the research actions in the field, the present arti…
The Science Summit, organized by the Commission for Atmospheric Sciences, will take place in Bali, Indonesia from 20 to 22 October 2017. The Summit will provide an opportunity to shape the WMO research agenda, building on the closer collaboration between weather, climate, water and environment research. An additional focus of the Summit is to close the…
For the 3rd year, IEREK organizes the international conference on Resilient and Responsible Architecture and Urbanism (RRAU) – 3rd Edition in a collaboration with Xiamen University Malaysia to highlight the role of architecture and urbanism in making our cities more resilient and sustainable against environmental disastrous…
This perspective paper discusses the main challenges and enablers of climate-resilient infrastructure and identifies how available roadmaps, tools and emerging digital technologies, e.g. Internet of Things, digital twins, point clouds, Artificial Intelligence, Building Information Modelling, can be placed at the service of a safer world. The operability…
By Will Bugler
Researchers at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) in US have developed a framework for valuing the benefits of applying resilience approaches to the country’s energy systems. Their work could be a major breakthrough in helping to demonstrate the importance of building resilience into critical infrastructure systems. To date,…
By Dalitso Njolinjo
The University of Surrey and King's College London have developed a new machine learning algorithm (AI) that could transform the way we monitor major infrastructure – such as dams and bridges.
In a paper published by the journal Structural Health Monitoring, researchers from Surrey and Kings detail how they created an AI syste…