Search
Results for " "
Displaying 60 of about 396 results
Forewords
By Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr, Mayor of Freetown, Sierra Leone
Over the past decades, residents of Freetown in Sierra Leone have witnessed first-hand the devasting impacts of climate change. Floods, rising sea levels, mudslides, landslides and more have caused irreplaceable loss and destruction, getting worse with every passing year.
Sierra…
This publication documents the findings of studies that analysed the current institutional, political and decision-support frameworks associated with disaster risk reduction (DRR) in Eastern Africa to support the development and integration of modern technologies such as AI innovations, citizen science and gender-responsive actions into strategies and a…
Webinar Recording
Day 1
Day 2
Event Objective
This three days virtual/online training workshop is to assist city and local governments in building greater resilience to climate and disaster risks through integrating climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction into wider city development plans and strategies.
Event Desc…
This form seeks to collect cases and experiences considered as "Good Practices" focused on Science, Technology and Innovation for the Resilience, Leadership and Autonomy of Women and Girls in Disaster Risk Reduction in Latin America and the Caribbean. We invite all persons and representatives of community organizations, public and private sectors,…
This contributing paper examines how the technical expertise of the engineering discipline as an input for risk knowledge may evolve into a 'critical' technical expertise. Despite decades of social science research into disasters, policy and practice in the field continues to be informed largely from a technical and data driven perspective. Th…
Time: 13.00 – 14.00hrs (Bangkok Time)
The “sharing of resources and knowledge” and “mutual learning” approaches are important ingredients of success. The experience from actual disasters reflected in the disaster risk reduction (DRR) education process should not be limited to teaching evacuation drills, which does not involve a comprehensive understand…
The 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…
Models of Himalayan tectonics have focused on crustal processes and climatic-crustal interactions, with mantle processes commonly relegated to a convergent boundary condition with static geometry. Insights into mantle dynamism over the past decade give us an opportunity to consider a more active role for the mantle in shaping crustal tectonics.
Cycles…
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) outbreak has been catastrophic for global economies -- shutting down the world and crippling economies in ways that will change the world forever. The pandemic highlights the need for collaborative approaches to managing global crisis and, more significantly, how we need to transition as COVID-19 has rapidly trans…
Background
The COVID-19 situation reveals the challenges of managing health risks while reducing disaster risks. All countries face systemic risks, such as those associated with disease outbreaks, with the potential for very significant socio-economic impacts. A range of international instruments and frameworks exist to support countries in managing th…
The United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA) and the Centre for Space Science and Technology Education for Asia and the Pacific (Affiliated to the United Nations) are launching a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) on “Geospatial Applications for Disaster Risk Management”. This MOOC is a free and flexible online training programme available…
Here the authors summarize the current state of extreme event monitoring in the marine system, highlighting the advantages of a multidisciplinary approach using Research Infrastructures for providing the temporal and spatial resolution required to monitor Earth processes and enhance assessment of associated impacts. Extreme events have long be…
The Third Global Summit of Research Institutes for Disaster Risk Reduction (GSRIDRR 2017) will take place at the Disaster Prevention Research Institute (DPRI), Kyoto University, Uji Campus, Oubaku Plaza, Kyoto, Japan from 19 to 21 March 2017.
This conference provides an opportunity for all those who are involved in disaster risk reduction (DRR) ac…
The first-ever United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR) gathering of scientists to discuss disaster risk management kicked off today in Geneva, Switzerland, seeking to map out a scientific and technological approach to the issue while addressing the importance of partnership.
“What motivates these gatherings is the knowledge that we c…
BANGKOK, 23 August 2016 - Scientists and researchers were today urged to provide "solutions and guidance" so that policymakers are able to effectively address the challenge of escalating disaster risk.
The Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General (SRSG) for Disaster Risk Reduction, Mr Robert Glasser, said successive record-br…