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Displaying 135 of about 1467 resultsThis second edition of the Handbook aims to foster an integrated and coordinated approach to homeland security, emergency management, and enterprise resilience. Chapter 49—The Hyogo Framework for Action (HFA)—was written by Margareta Wahlström, the Special Representative of the Secretary-General (SRSG) for Disaster Risk Reduction.
The Handbook has sev…
This document, a product of unique collaboration between the meteorological and public health communities, provides sound scientific information on the connections between weather and climate and major health challenges. These range from diseases of poverty to disease outbreaks and emergencies caused by weather-, climate- and water-related hazards, most…
This year’s World Disasters Report (WDR) focuses on forced migration and on the people forcibly displaced by conflict, political upheaval, violence, disasters, climate change and development projects, whose numbers are increasing inexorably each year. To explain the crises of disaster and displacement, it points at the lack of disaster risk reduction (D…
This report presents a detailed picture of the potential impacts of climate change on migration in Asia and the Pacific. It recommends interventions both to address the situation of those who have migrated, as well as those who remain in areas subject to environmental risk. It calls on governments to adopt polices and commit financing to social protecti…
This review analyses some of the major events and trends related to natural disasters and humanitarian disaster response and looks at the experience of developed countries with natural disasters in 2011. Highlighting evidences from the Japanese earthquake-tsunami-nuclear accident, the earthquake in Christchurch, New Zealand, floods in Australia, and tor…
This document provides guidance which States may recommend to operators and regulatory authorities where volcanic ash contamination may be a hazard for flight operations. The underlying assumption used is that the individual operator is responsible for such operations under the oversight of their respective State regulatory authority. The guiding princi…
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This article presents the findings of an independent investigation panel, established by the Rebuild Japan Initiative Foundation, to review how the government, the Tokyo Electric Power Company, and other relevant actors responded to the earthquake-tsunami-nuclear disaster that unfold…
This paper argues that the Fukushima plant would have withstood the tsunami had its design previously been upgraded in accordance with state-of-the-art safety approaches. It asserts that the analysis of past tsunami was insufficient and that Japan did not adequately prepare for the possibility of power failures at nuclear plants, while European countrie…
These Guidance Notes aim to support ministry of education officials to integrate conflict or disaster risk reduction (C/DRR) into their planning processes. They have been designed particularly for officials in planning departments at central level in countries affected by conflict and/or disasters. Each chapter presents one of the typical phases of the…
The purpose of this report is to: identify and assess current and emerging global risks, including extreme weather events and climate change, in the 2006 and 2015 time horizons; study the links between them and to assess their likely effect on different markets and industries; and advance the thinking around more effective mitigation of global risks.
This publication is a tool for field actors, with the primary purpose of enabling humanitarian actors and communities to plan, establish, and coordinate a set of minimum multisectoral interventions to prevent and respond to secular violence during the early phase of an emergency. Three sets of activities are included in the guidelines: overview of activ…
This document is the result of a participatory process developed from April to December 2003, through national workshops and forums of analysis and proposals in the different countries of the Central American region. These processes ended with the Mitch+5 Regional Forum, which took place in December in the city of Tegucigalpa, Honduras. The forum brough…
SHAPE-RISK: Sharing experience on risk management (health, safety and environment) to design future industrial systems
This document deals with the continuity of risk management from workplace accident to major accident. The coordination action shows a large variety in methods and criteria used as well as institutions involved in the various countries…
Environmental issue report No 35
This is the first EEA publication to address the impacts of natural disasters and technological accidents across Europe. Focusing on major events between 1998 and 2002, the report adds value to existing studies by bringing together available information on their human and economic costs and adding the environmental pers…
This flagship report summarizes the state-of-the-art of science on the subject of “Climate Change as a Security Risk”. It is based on the findings of research into environmental conflicts, the causes of war, and of climate impact research. It appraises past experience but also ventures to cast a glance far into the future in order to assess the likel…