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A new $37.2 million levee in the town of St. Helena, on the floodplain of the Napa River, has a colorful history and has been stirring local acrimony since its inception. This project illustrates both the attraction of levee protection, in this case protecting a low-income neighborhood (“low income” by Napa standards) hit by disastro…
By Jane Qiu
Geologists gathered in Beijing for the 33rd International Geographical Congress, held in August, reported that at least six of Tibet’s southern lakes could be classified as “very critically dangerous” since they could cause devastating glacial lake outburst floods (GLOFs).
There have been at least 30 GLOFs in Tibet in the recent past accor…
Using artificial intelligence to analyze images collected through terrestrial and aerial mapping, the Capital District of Bogotá, Colombia, is working to identify homes and neighborhoods that need to be improved. The goal is to have families living in better, greener, safer homes before the next disaster strikes.
This effort, supported by the World Ban…
This study explores agent-based tsunami evacuation simulations to compare the evacuation ratio when agents are evacuated to their nearest inland evacuation facility regardless of direction relative to the coastline. Future earthquakes originating in the Nankai Trough and Hyuga-nada Sea near Japan are expected to cause strong tremors and large tsuna…
The Regional Conference Understanding Risk (UR) West and Central Africa – “Human Capital and Innovation for a Resilient Society” will be held from 20 to 22 November 2019 in Abidjan (Ivory Coast). The conference will alternate technical workshops, plenary sessions, feedback and exchange between participants on the crucial challe…
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Rapid urbanization and climate change are key drivers of increasing vulnerability and disaster risk in Tanzanian cities. In view of this, the government, the World Bank, and the UK Department for International Development (DfID) are collaborating through the Tanzania Urban Resilience Program (TURP) to improve the country’s abil…
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NASA's Applied Remote Sensing Training (ARSET) Program is conducting this webinar series that will provide demonstrations and hands-on experience in using NASA remote sensing observations and flood mapping tools useful for flood management. Participants will learn to access rainfall, streamflow, and surface inundation extent data for…
Decentralization in Tropical Africa puts decision-making in adaptation and risk reduction in the hands of those who are directly experiencing climate change and disasters. Local plans are multiplying at municipal and village scale. Nevertheless, these tools, built on local/indigenous knowledge only, have still several limits: climate trends are not cons…
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Though landslides are a natural occurrence, they can be triggered by ill-conceived development and settlements in high-risk areas. In many developing countries, construction of roads in river basins and mountainous areas causes landslides and leads to erosion and sedimentation.
Mountainous areas make up 70% of Japan, making it highly suscepti…
The Department of Disaster Management will soon be able to provide flood hazard maps for Johnson Ghut, a ghut is the local term for a gully or stream valley to land owners and developers. Flood hazard mapping is a vital component for appropriate land use planning in flood-prone areas. It creates easy to read, rapidly accessible charts and maps which hel…
Article in: Disasters, vol. 31, issue 3.
In the developing countries of Asia local authorities rarely use risk analysis instruments as a decision-making support mechanism during planning and development procedures. The main purpose of this paper is to provide a methodology to enable planners to undertake such analyses. We illustrate a case study…
By Rong-Gong Lin II
A sobering new report on California’s seismic vulnerabilities said that up to 3.5 million homes could be damaged if an 8.0 earthquake ruptured on the San Andreas fault.
The new estimate, from the data firm CoreLogic, is based on a theoretical rupture of the entire San Andreas fault, which passes through Los Angeles County…
DAKAR, 19 September 2016 - The government of Senegal is harnessing cutting-edge information and communications technology to manage and reduce disaster risk, with the aim of curbing deaths and economic losses caused by natural and man-made hazards in the West African nation.
The “civil protection and new information technologies” initiative was launche…
GENEVA, 30 December 2015 – Hundreds of science and technology specialists from around the globe will come together next month to harness their expertise to help reduce disaster risk.
The 27-29 January UNISDR Science and Technology Conference, in Geneva, will draw around 800 delegates from disciplines spanning the natural and social sciences, medicine a…
By Vivien Deparday, Grace Anna Doherty, Mira Lilian Gupta and Nuala Margaret Cowan
Advances in technologies like satellites and smartphones have transformed maps as we know them. The gold standard map is now digital. It is accessible – open data approaches mean that map data can be repurposed by many agencies, organizations, and communities at once. Wi…