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Displaying 90 of about 1140 resultsJapan's experience is a clear reminder to the world of the value of mainstreaming disaster preparedness and risk management into development.
It was 2:46 p.m. when one of the largest earthquakes ever recorded struck off the Pacific coast of Japan on March 11, exactly two years ago. The shaking lasted six endless minutes, generating a devastating tsunam…
The policy, launched by the Ministry of Climate Change, provides a framework for coping with the threats of climate change through adaptation and mitigation actions and includes measures such as flood forecasting warning systems, explains Waqas Naeem in a column for the Express Tribune. "The goal is to ensure that climate change is mainstreamed in the e…
By Elias Ntungwe Ngalame
Limbe, Cameroon — “Climate and weather tory. Wona lookot!” “Climate and weather news! Pay attention!”
The announcement, made in pidgin English, catches the attention of listeners to Eden Radio, a community station in the coastal town of Limbe, in Cameroon’s Southwest Province.
“Put ear for Eden Radio for sabi weti weather fo…
Local communities reaction to disasters can make a significant difference in building resilience, according to Vinod Thomas, director general for independent evaluation at the Manila-based Asian Development Bank: “Decentralisation is the trend across Asia and that has led to greater efforts by local communities to organise themselves and demand resource…
Narayan Gyawali, program director with Lutheran World Relief that’s working in Nepal, speaks to Down To Earth about trans-boundary floods and better approached to deal with it
By Akshit Sangomla
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Do India and Nepal have a trans-boundary flood management programme?
Nepal and India have a Water and Energy Commission Secretariat (WECS) to deal wit…
In September 2004, USGS scientists detected sudden, but unmistakable, signs that Mount St. Helens was waking up. Volcano monitors had picked up the occurrence of hundreds of small earthquakes and other signals that the volcano’s crater floor had begun to rise. Within a week, several eruptions blasted clouds of ash into the atmosphere, and soon…
This document is the final report of the Commission of Inquiry into the Queensland floods of 2010/2011, established following the flooding of historic proportions in Queensland in December 2010, stretching into January 2011. It embodies both likelihood of flooding
and the consequences of flood when it comes.
The report begins with an examination of flo…
This paper examines how responsibilities can be shared among the residents, experts, and public authorities during the design and operation of landslide warning systems. In particular, we discuss the outcome and implications of three stakeholder workshops where participants deliberated on warning-system options that, in turn, were based on a discourse a…
This study reveals that while the Pakistani government has instituted a comprehensive disaster risk reduction (DRR) governance system, the system actually suffers from a lack of political commitment, funding, skilled human resources, and coordination and suffers from fragmentation, and overlapping and unclear mandates among government agencies horizonta…
This compendium of research papers is based disaster risk reduction and understanding the nature, occurrence, and severity of threats, underlying causes of vulnerabilities and capacity of the populace in South and Southeast Asia. It addresses the new focus of disaster risk reduction at present is on vulnerability reduction and building resilient communi…
This report by the UK Natural Hazard Working Group advises on the mechanisms that could and should be established for the detection and early warning of global physical natural hazards. It presents Group’s endorsement of the view expressed at the Kobe World Conference on Disaster Reduction (Jan 2005) that there is a clear need for a sustainable and effe…
Summary of the regional study - June 2011:
This study is aimed to help better understand both the risks that North Africa’s coastal cities face by the 2030 time horizon, and to help prepare the required adaptive responses. Alexandria, Casablanca and Tunis were studies together with the Bouregreg Valley between Rabat and Salé in Morocco, an area which i…
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This report provides strategic guidance to address systemic shocks, and outlines several common challenges confronting efforts to manage them. It explains that global shocks can arise from an event that impacts the entire world more or less at once, such as the collision of the earth with a massive asteroid, or they may result from…
This document outlines the strategic frames for NDF’s activities during the next two years: (i) to facilitate greater investments in developing countries to address the causes and consequences of climate change; (ii) to support development and climate change strategies in developing countries; (iii) to maximise additionality and complementarity in relat…
This second volume presents case studies covering a diverse range of chemical and technological innovations, and highlighting a number of systemic problems. It contains five parts: (i) lessons from health hazards and the value of independent scientific research and risk assessments; (ii) emerging lessons from ecosystems and their wider impacts such as c…