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Displaying 120 of about 2135 resultsThe conference motto for IDRC Davos 2008 is: Public-private partnership – key for integral risk management and climate change adaptation.
IDRC Davos 2008 will address global problems and attract participants from all over the globe. We expect more than 1300 participants from 130 countries.
The conference will take an integrated, multidisciplinary appro…
This photo taken in 2014 shows the scale of housing development around the hills of Freetown, Sierra Leone. Photo by Kai Matturi, August 2014.
Cry Freetown
On August 14th 2017, the city of Freetown, Sierra Leone, experienced catastrophic flooding, which is estimated to have killed anywhere from 500-1,000 people. Like many people, I became awar…
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La Facultad de Construcciones y el Departamento de Ingeniería Civil de la Universidad de Oriente, tienen el gusto de invitarlo a participar en Conferencia Internacional de Peligrosidad, Riesgo Geológico e Ingeniería Sísmica y de Desastres (SISMOS 2012) , que contará con el co-auspicio de Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Sismológicas (CENAI…
عقدت وحدة هندسة الزلازل في مركز التخطيط الحضري والحد من المخاطر في جامعة النجاح الوطنية، ووزارة الحكم المحلي، وبالتنسيق مع المؤسسة الأممية: الإستراتيجية الدولية للحد من الكوارث UN-ISDR ورشة عمل بعنوان "هل مدينتي تستعد" وذلك نحو إستراتيجية فلسطينية للحد من مخاطر الكوارث
وحضر الورشة الأستاذ الدكتور رامي حمد الله، رئيس الجامعة، والسيدة عنان الأتيرة، نائ…
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The course is aimed at improving the capacity of private consultants and mid-career professionals from various public sector agencies/departments, non-governmental organisations at national and international level – to enable the integration of disaster risk reduction in urban practice through planning, design and management.
The course con…
Sustainable flood risk management is about maximising both social and economic resilience against flooding, by protecting and working with the environment, in a way which is fair and affordable both now and in the future. Resilience to flooding can be increased through a variety of measures, including structural (flood defence), non-structural (flood wa…
This conference will share challenges, knowledge, good practices and experiences on building the resilience of Delta regions to floods and other hydro-meteorological disaster events, particularly in urbanised areas.
It will provide a platform to discuss the current challenges associated with flood and other hydro-meteorological disaster risk management…
The International Summer School on Management Flood Disasters in Delta Cities will take place in Beijing, China, June 18 - 24, 2017. The summer school is divided into three subject areas related to flood risk management: preparedness and long-term planning, flood disaster response and recovery. These three phases will be brought together through di…
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By 2010 an estimated 50% of the population of developing countries will be living in cities and eight out of ten largest cities of the World will be in developing countries. Over three quarters of those cities are exposed to at least one natural hazard. Yet, cities are ill-prepared to effectively respond to such events, and the collective e…
An earthquake can be a frightening and destructive natural event. With increasing population and the potential encroachment of urban development into areas susceptible to earthquakes, vulnerability to earthquakes could intensify. However, we have begun to challenge the premise that earthquakes present an uncontrollable and unpredictable hazard to life a…
Inner‐city pluvial flooding is characterised by major uncertainties, often making response problematic. We explore this in London, Lisbon, and Rotterdam, through ex post document analysis and semi‐structured interviews. Traditional uncertainty analysis generally focuses on quantifiable factors, needing to clarify uncertainty for engineering design, floo…
Nature-based Solutions (NBS) that strategically conserve or restore nature to support conventionally built infrastructure systems (also referred to as gray infrastructure) can reduce disaster risk and produce more resilient and lower-cost services in developing countries.
In the disaster risk management (DRM) and water security sectors, NBS can be appl…
Cities will be on the frontlines of climate adaptation. Building up their resilience has the potential to drive one of the largest infrastructure build-outs in history and will likely require innovative sources of financing.
Although the timing, scope and magnitude of the consequences of global warming remain uncertain, the potential ri…
Urban risk, city planning and the role of local governments in dealing with risk reduction have been recognized as key factors to build resilient communities and nations. This program highlighted roles of local governments in implementing disaster risk reduction and disaster management in ensuring effective and well-coordinated local actions to save liv…
Urban planners seeking to enhance resilience contend with the complexity of interdependent systems and severe gaps in data and information. This complexity-capacity gap is most evident in smaller, rapidly growing cities. Experience in Africa shows these are also the cities where most risk is accruing and where the majority of population growth is felt.…