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Displaying 105 of about 346 resultsA Masters of Disaster curriculum featuring activities that will help students learn how to prevent wildland fires and stay safe if one occurs. Includes a fire risk meter produced by the National Wildfire Coordinating Group to determine the home's risk from wildfire.
A Masters of Disaster curriculum featuring lesson plans that will help students learn how to prevent wildland fires and stay safe if one occurs. Wildland fire prevention and preparedness are viewed in the perspective of scientific inquiry, physics, life sciences, earth and space science, and social sciences.
A Masters of Disaster curriculum featuring activities that will help students learn how to prevent fires and stay safe if one occurs.
These lesson plans for teachers of Grade 3-5 children are to encourage their students to practice what they learn in these lessons(general injury prevention, burns, breathing emergencies, slips, trips, and falls, and poisoning) and become safety experts at home, at school, and at play, teaching them that accidents and injuries can be prevented and that…
Activity sheets for Grade 6-8 children aim to encourage children who have experienced a tragic event (emergencies, tornadoes, earthquake, ...) to recover their enjoyment of pleasurable activities by doing them with the family, and to continue to share thoughts and feelings. It also teaches them what to do when and provides rules for humanitarian protect…
The Facing Fear curriculum supplements the American Red Cross Masters of Disaster curriculum, which provides standards-based flexible curriculum written by teachers for teachers, with lessons about general preparedness for disasters, and full units about science and safety regarding hurricanes, floods, tornadoes, lightning and earthquakes, but also how…
This guide aims to strengthen the Educational sector and the national system in the prevention of disasters through the definition of school plans for emergencies in which students, teachers, administrative staff and family have a specific function to address emergencies and disasters, and through the inventory of available resources. It is considered a…
The annual Android Conference gives us all a great opportunity to be informed about the progress of the work that has been going on in the different work packages of the project and to discuss and exchange ideas and views on disaster resilience. These are highly valuable gatherings, bringing together experts from 64 European institutions from 24 EU coun…
Background
A natural disaster is the effect of a natural hazard (e.g., flood, tornado, hurricane, volcanic eruption, earthquake, heat wave, or landslide). It leads to financial, environmental or human losses. The resulting loss depends on the vulnerability of the affected population to resist the hazard, also called their resilience. Risks in a changin…
Disasters are increasing in intensity and frequency due to conflicts and impact of climate change on Communities. Disasters have the potential of reducing Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and delaying the attainment of Millennium Development Goals (MDG). Considerable efforts are needed to reduce risks and build disaster resilience.
The objectives of this co…
The theme of the 3rd Asia conference on earthquake engineering (ACEE 2010)will be "Disaster Risk Reduction and Capacity Building for Safer Environments” and aims at promoting and exchanging new ideas and experiences in the broad fields of seismology, earthquake engineering, seismic risk and disaster mitigation.
Coverage
The areas of special interests…
The workshop will address the following topics:
- Disaster risk reduction and climate change;
- Disaster risk reduction, preparedness and response;
- Impact of climate change on health and adaptation strategies in the mountainous areas of Pakistan;
- Climate change, on social protection on the basis of assessing disaster losses, trends of extreme weath…
The year 2010 is the 50 year anniversary of the 1960 Chilean Tsunami generated by a giant earthquake offshore Chile (M=9.5), which caused severe damage in many countries along the Pacific Ocean. After the tsunami, understanding of tsunami generation mechanisms, development of international warning systems, and integrated management became important issu…
The Backyards and Beyond Conference offers a great opportunity to learn from those who work and live in the wildland/urban interface.
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Firewise Communities/USA® focuses on how communities can become Firewise, real-life experiences of successful recognition sites, how to engage homeowners, and long-term rewards of becoming Firewise.…
El camino inicial para reducir el riesgo sísmico es conocer la condición de las construcciones.
¿Cómo evaluamos la seguridad sísmica de gran cantidad de construcciones existentes? Se cuenta con varias prescripciones en reglamentos para la evaluación de edificaciones individuales. Pero es necesario avanzar en la evaluación de determinados edificios a ni…