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Displaying 396 of about 396 resultsThe Asian Development Bank’s (ADB) Board of Directors has approved a $90 million loan to help Cambodia strengthen climate resilience and modernize the agriculture sector using advanced technologies.
The Climate-Friendly Agribusiness Value Chains Sector Project will also be funded by an additional $10 million loan and a $30 million grant from the Green…
The new global norm of extreme weather-related disasters and climate change requires a new type of disaster-resilience modelling
By Greg Foliente, Rory Nathan, Yiqun Chen, and Abbas Rajabifard
Extreme events are on the rise globally.
Indonesia was recently hit by a devastating earthquake and tsunami. Hurricane Florence and…
Juba - Disease outbreaks and other emergencies constitute a serious threat to public health security worldwide. Delayed and incomplete indicator and event-based reporting limits health managers’ ability to initiate timely event investigation and response. This reporting delay further constrains rapid event containment thus increasing the risk of extensi…
On August 7, 2020, the United Nations office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR), in collaboration with the CIMA Research Foundation and the Asian Disaster Preparedness Center (ADPC), organized the first online introductory workshop for the countries of Central Asia on the “DesInventar-Sendai” system software for the systematic collection, analysis and…
QUEZON CITY -- The Department of Education (DepEd), in partnership with Save the Children Philippines and Prudence Foundation, launched the Rapid Assessment of Damages Report (RADaR) mobile and web applications nationwide last September 22 and 24 to ensure immediate response interventions and learning continuity in the event of disasters and other emerg…
Flash floods are among the most dangerous of all natural hazards. They are hydrometeorological phenomena with enough power to change the course of rivers, bury houses in mud, and sweep away or destroy whatever is in their path in a very short time after the observable causative event, and that is why they present a forecast challenge.
To address the is…