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Displaying 2135 of about 2135 resultsProduced by The University of Manchester, UK (Professor Duncan Shaw, Dr Jennifer Bealt, and Professor Ruth Boaden) in partnership with the Global Resilient Cities Network (Lina Liakou and Femke Gubbels)
What is the weekly briefing on Cities for a Resilient Recovery?
Each week the University of Manchester brings together relevant international practic…
By Silvia Danielak
Local government and humanitarian actors are faced with tough choices of prioritising, managing and balancing resources, locations and constituencies.
Following heavy rains in November 2016, flash floods washed through the Setswetla informal settlement adjacent to Alexandra in Johannesburg. The floods destroyed several dozen ho…
A contribution to the Global Campaign 2010-2020. Making Cities Resilient – “My City is Getting Ready!”
With over half the world’s population now living in urban areas, making cities safer is a long-term challenge that must be achieved. Cities are engines of national growth and dynamic in their governance systems and capacities.…
This handbook provides an overview of natural hazards, climate change susceptibility, disaster management and response in Bangladesh. It provides analysis of government disaster plans and policies and community preparedness.
The handbook highlights the growing concern of the impacts of climate change, including sea level rise and human displacemen…
This study examines a flood that occurred in the Erkilet District of Kayseri, Türkiye on September 22, 2022, as a result of intense rainfall. It involves a thorough on-site investigation to assess the hydraulic, hydrologic, and geotechnical attributes of the study area.The findings from the field study indicate that the primary cause of the flood is att…