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Displaying 75 of about 322 resultsThis inception report, prepared at the request of the Government of Samoa includes a section on natural risk management in Samoa - expand the Coastal Infrastructure Management Plan (CIM) strategy to: (i) incorporate issues relating to climate change adaptation; and (ii) incorporate strategies for other types of hazards (e.g. flooding, landslips etc.) an…
As the Australian and the Philippine Governments were celebrating the International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction in Pasig City, 87 hazard and risk assessment maps for each of the 24 local government units (LGUs), including exposure database containing physical information, population and socio-economic characteristics of communities, were handed over…
Dakar - With the vast majority of population growth taking place in towns and cities, according to the UN, aid agencies are adapting their food security responses to better fit into urban contexts. An increasing number of tools and innovations are becoming available to help with this effort, but humanitarians have yet to undertake the shift required for…
Risk is widely conceptualized as a factor of hazards, exposure and vulnerability. One critical component of the risk equation is geography. The physical location of people and assets very much defines the likelihood and impact of a specific hazard which make geographic information systems (GIS) a critical tool of any risk assessment strategy. …
This hanbook aims at being used as a tool to reduce urban risk in small and medium sized cities by local schools, students, teachers, parents, resident associations and local government members, by watching both good and bad (vulnerable) parts of their cities. Through collective watching and participatory mapping, it intends to facilitate the engagement…
This book was produced to mark the end of the International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction (IDNDR), a United Nations initiative to reduce the negative effects of natural disasters.
This volume communicates solutions to the problems associated with natural disasters, stimulating discussion and improvements in methods of protecting people and prop…
This Guide has been created to provide advice on useful strategies for implementing the Hyogo Framework for Action 2005-2015: Building the Resilience of Nations and Communities to Disasters (HFA). It represents a distillation of the wealth of experience that exists throughout the world on how to manage and reduce disaster risks. The Guide can help state…
One of advantage in ecological planning method of Ian L. McHarg is synthesis of respective optimal landuse (non optimal landuse). The earthquake and tsunami damage in March 11, 2011 recalled the importance of the comprehensive optimal land use evaluation. Especially, damages of the Fukushima nuclear plants were catastrophic. This study focused on the cr…
The Mayor of Nis, Mr. Zoran Perišic, and the Mayor of Strumica, Mr. Zoran Zaev, both oversaw events that emphasized reducing climate and disaster risk as a priority.
'Today I would like to send a strong message to everyone in the community in which we live that we really need to get ready and always focus most of our energy in terms of personal readine…
The Climate Change Commission (CCC), through Project Climate Twin Phoenix, the City Government of Iligan, and the Mindanao State University-Iligan Institute of Technology (MSU-IIT) will be conducting a training on the use of the Climate Change Exposure Database (ClimEx.DB), which is a tool designed to help communities and cities in planning their land u…
Water is not only as a resource, it has now become a serious political issue. COST, in collaboration with Water Supply and Sanitation Technology Platform (WssTP), brought together scientists and decision-makers to an event that focused on water in the urban environment, discussed the key issue of better water governance and created a market for research…
This course introduces current theory and practice of flood risk estimation and modelling of floods in urban areas.
Course content
Urban development planning and asset management
The course starts with the wider picture and considers how flood risk is managed as part of the urban development planning and asset management process.
Urban hydrology and…
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.
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The areas of special interests…
Le partenariat franco-marocain
Les universités Paul Valéry - Montpellier 3 et Chouaib Doukkali d’El Jadida développent depuis plusieurs années une coopération scientifique et pédagogique dans le champ des géosciences des risques (projets ANR, Actions intégrées, Co-tutelles de thèse, voyages d’étude et échanges universitaires).
Un « Géorisque 2012 » au…
The seminar "Forefront and challenging geospatial technologies for environment and disaster management in Southeast Asia" is organized by the Regional Network office for Urban Safety (RNUS).
RNUS is a collaborative center jointly operated by the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT), the International Center for Urban Safety Engineering (ICUS), the…