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Displaying 45 of about 322 resultsClimate change will affect Europe's cities in different ways. To give an overall impression of the challenge for European cities to adapt to climate change, the European Environment Agency (EEA) has published a series of detailed interactive maps, allowing users to explore data from more than 500 cities across Europe.
Climate change is expected to incr…
Changing weather patterns render past risk assessments unreliable
Following a devastating landslide in the small village of Johnsons Landing, Canada, experts urge the province British Columbia to upgrade its slide hazard mapping to account for climate change, reports The Vancouver Sun. Establishing early warning systems in the high-risk areas and distr…
This report introduces resilience.io, a computer-based platform, an analysis and decision-support tool, that allows users to accurately model resource flows, for example, energy, food and water, so that regions can manage both their economy and critical supporting ecosystems. It is a tool that allows regions globally to assess their current development…
This paper presents a technique identifying the relationships between spatial and non-spatial data essential to the post- disaster risk reduction at the local scale. The obtain information derives from the deep insight interviews of affected people regarding issues associated with spatial aspects in a disaster event. The explored issues regarding the in…
Erdkunde 2015, Vol 69, Issue 4, 307-325, doi:10.3112/erdkunde.2015.04.02:
Taking Musikot in Nepal as a characteristic case study of rapid urban change, this article analyses its increasing local earthquake-risk in light of insufficient seismic building code implementation and risk-sensitive urban planning. Applying an approach that combines repeat phot…
This report presents the findings of the survey to assess the risk and vulnerability context of backyard dwellers in Klapmuts, South Africa. Beginning with an overview of the development history and most recent demographic and socio-economic profile of Klapmuts, the report explores the issue of backyard dwellings in South Africa more generally, making r…
In an interview with Xinhua, Zou Ming, director of the disaster relief department of China's Civil Affairs Ministry, stated that the 'risk map' will be part of a natural disaster risk evaluation project intended to help city planners avoid locations at risk of earthquakes, floods and mudslides.
The Integrated Coastal Zone Management (ICZM) project was approved by the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) this week in Delhi. The World Bank assisted project includes hazard mapping, to be carried out along the 7500km coastline for the first time, by the Survey of India, and is aimed at protecting coastal communities and infrastructure loc…
According to the Times Record, the county will amend its floodplain ordinance to incorporate any map changes. The ordinance was adopted by the county in 1982, qualifying for participation in the National Flood Insurance Program.
The Catanduanes Tribune profiles a mapping initiative enabling residents and investors of 4 Filipino cities to know whether their project sites are sitting on a fault line or exposed to possible geologic hazards. The initiative intends to assist government planners and policy makers in identifying hazard areas prone to flooding, landslides, sea level ri…
Pakistan suffered its most severe floods in living history in 2010. The floods began in late July 2010, following heavy monsoon rains in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Sindh, Punjab and Baluchistan regions of Pakistan. These extra ordinary monsoon rains were described as the worst in the last 80 years. According to the Pakistan Meteorological Department, rainf…
As part of a project meant to build a database and mapping scheme that would facilitate actions to minimise damages which could occur from related natural disasters, six provinces will set up pilot landslide warning systems in several mountainous regions, reports Viet Nam News. The scheme will be implemented in two phases from 2012 to 2020 and gives pri…
As we reflect on 2017, the truly devastating impact of climate change is being felt across the globe. The evidence has never been clearer that the impact of climate change is happening now. The World Bank's “Shockwaves” report estimates that, without major investment, climate change will push as many as an additional 100 million people into poverty…
Nearly 70 percent of the 63 municipal governments in Nara and Wakayama prefectures hit by typhoon-induced mudslides did not have hazard maps prepared for such disasters, reports the Japan Times. It highlights the lack of public awareness of mudslides versus earthquakes and tsunami, although landslides have become the more likely threat in recent years b…
OTTAWA – When municipal officials were told last year about new tools to help them map the risk of flooding in their communities, they immediately raised red flags, suggesting they wanted no part of it over concerns about legal liability and political backlash.
Details contained in internal government reports echo a narrative across the country that sh…