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Displaying 15 of about 297 resultsBenthic foraminifera from the South China Sea were studied to assess mass mortality and to monitor the composition and recovery of the benthic communities following the 1991 Mt Pinatubo ashfall. Surface distribution data from monitoring stations in the eastern South China Sea that were occupied during four cruises between spring 1994 and summer 1998 dis…
The June 1991 eruption of Mount Pinatubo, Philippines, was the second largest of the 20th century, emplacing 5--6 km 3 of pyroclastic-flow material and creating record high sediment yields on rivers draining the volcano. This thesis explores landscape response to and recovery from sediment loading in the 1991 eruption from the drainage basin scale to mo…
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This Asian Development Bank Institute (ADBI) Featured Speaker Webinar presented Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) Governor Benjamin E. Diokno. He discussed the macroeconomic outlook, financial technology (fintech) development, and sustainable recovery in the Philippines and broader Asia and the Pacific in the face of new uncerta…
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09:00 am - 10:30 am Manila Time
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As countries begin to recover from the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, policy makers must decide what type of economic recovery they want to pursue. Will they choose measures that continue with existing “business-as-usual” economic structures that have a negat…
The main objective of PDNA–Environment is to prepare a recovery strategy that guides the restoration of environment and natural resources damaged due to a disaster. This should also enable environmentally friendly rebuilding in all sectors. The recovery plan also supports the restoration of environment and natural resources as a disaster risk reduction…
Dates and Time: 11 February 2022 16:00-17:30 KST | 8:00-9:30 CET
Modality: Online
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The OECD side-event on Supporting Green Recovery: Towards Green Growth in Southeast Asia (SEA) will provide an opportunity for country representatives from the Southeast Asia region to:
-Share their challenges and priorities…
• Ishinomaki City promoted the introduction of an energy system combined with solar power generators, storage batteries, and BEMS to elementary and junior high schools within the city and in Shin-Hebita District where disaster public housings were concentrated. The city aimed to build a town that could secure the power generated by renewable energy in t…
On August 4, 2020, a massive explosion in the Port of Beirut (PoB) rocked the city, killing more than 200 people, wounding more than 6,000, and displacing around 300,000. The detonations all but destroyed the country’s largest port, one of the busiest in the Middle East and most of Lebanon’s grain reserves. The city’s dense residential and commercial ar…
Following the success of the first two conferences on Coastal Processes held in Malta in 2009 and Naples in 2011, it has been decided to reconvene the meeting in Gran Canaria.
Conference Topics
Wave modelling
Hydrodynamic modelling
Effects of climate change in coastal zones
Coastal defences
Energy recovery
Sediment transport and…
This is a one-day performance level training course that develops the participant's ability to apply coastal risk reduction and opportunity enhancement measures to coastal floodplain management. The course format is as follows:
• Modules 1 and 2 will introduce the course scenario, with Module 2 concluding with an activity requiring teams of learners…
The 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…
The Second International Conference on Health and Biodiversity, will take place from Monday 25th to Thursday 28th February 2008 in Galway, Ireland. The conference will aim to advance dialogue and collaboration across sectors on issues linking biodiversity with human health and well-being, and highlight practical cross-sectoral and holistic approaches to…
Purpose of Position
The successful candidate will play a key role, side by side with the regional programme coordinator, regional DM delegate, regional communications delegate and the regional finance and administration manager, as well as the heads of the IFRC delegations in Mongolia and DPRK, and the IFRC representative in Japan, in supporting the on…
The Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency (MSB) is opening our field staff roster for Disaster Waste Management Experts willing to be deployed at short notice to various parts of the world. As a member of our roster you will continuously receive interesting international job opportunities and invitations to stimulating and valuable trainings and exercises.…
Background
COVID-19 that is continuing to cause human tragedy, social upheaval and economic turmoil across the globe can be considered as a once-in-a-century ecological security crisis that creates an urgent need for an in-depth reflection on the relationship between human beings and nature. But striking a balance between the two will not be possible u…