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On August 14, 2017, after three days of intense rain, a massive side slope of the Sugar Loaf – the highest mountain in the north of Sierra Leone’s Western Area Peninsula – collapsed and slipped into the Babadorie River Valley.
The mudslide affected about 6,000 people. Up to 1,141 of them were declared d…
By Julie Watson and Seth Borenstein
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And while the change in the number of dead from Hurricane Maria is perhaps the most dramatic — rising from 64 to a 2,975 after the Puerto Rican governor commissioned university researchers to review the count — it's common for death tolls in natural disasters to escalate weeks and months later because of…
A WMO-led project to establish a functioning hydrometeorological service in Afghanistan to improve early warnings and provide accessible and accurate weather forecasts to increase resilience has “achieved more than anyone could imagine,” according to an Afghan government minister.
Afghanistan is highly vulnerable to weather and wate…
This book features international, national and regional perspectives on climate change experiences, highlighting the Global Framework for Climate Services (GFCS) for a warmer world and how participating countries are dealing with opportunities and challenges today, while preparing for those in the future. It contains articles from over 100 authors relat…
In French:
Ce document présente la première composante du projet ILWAC destiné à permettre la mise en place d’un système global, cohérent et intégré de gestion des informations et des données permettant le renforcement du partage des connaissances et des capacités en vue d’une prise de décision éclairée sur les questions liées aux changements climatiq…
This wokring paper aims to identify barriers to information use for climate adaptation in South Asia. It serves as background for a South Asian regional workshop that will bring together adaptation information users and producers to inform likely new investments in the information base for climate adaptation. This paper aims to support progress toward t…
This report focuses on a way to foster the growth of explaining the causes of specific extreme disaster events in near-real time. It provides an assessment on causes of historical changes in temperature and precipitation extremes worldwide to provide a long-term perspective for the events discussed in 2011. It encourages the development of an objective…
This report presents the findings on the effectiveness and impact of PreventionWeb (PW) and other UNISDR information services, and their ability to meet current and evolving information needs of existing and new disaster risk reduction (DRR) stakeholders, of the external evaluation undertaken by ITAD.
The evaluation and corresponding report aim to answ…
PWS-3; WMO/TD No. 1088:
The guidelines were developed to assist National Meteorological or Hydrometeorological Services (NMSs) in improving the effectiveness of their public weather services, improving public understanding and creating effective two-way communication with the media. They also discuss medium and long-range forecasts and early warnings,…
PWS-22; WMO/TD No. 1560:
This document provides guidelines on international collaboration in the warning process for severe weather threats and extreme conditions (heat wave, cold wave, drought, storm surge, avalanches, flooding.) It discusses general principles regarding cross-border exchange of warnings, and includes the role of the media in raising…
This note is part of a broader effort to provide reliable post-disaster financial information and analysis. In particular, it reports on international experience with the financial database systems, but with a particular focus on the post-tsunami DAD, as well as systems that could be potentially suitable - for example, the Bulgarian Development Cooperat…
Union minister for Science and Technology and Earth Sciences Vilasrao Deshmukh on Monday asked the city-based Indian National Centre for Ocean Information Services (Incois) to focus on developing the tsunami warning centre on its campus into a global one, reports the Hindustan Times. "This is one of the best tsunami warning centres in the world which is…
While the trial of scientists charged with making a "generic and ineffective" assessment of the danger prior to L'Aquila earthquake has been adjourned until October 15 to allow defense attorneys to examine new evidence, the Chronicle of Higher Education illustrates the challenges—also highlighted by other recent disasters, such as Hurricane Katrina and…
During the workshop 'Media Workshop on Hazard and Disaster Management' Noor Muhammad, Communication Officer of Focus Humanitarian Assistance, said that media should be enrolled as a contributing factor in awareness-raising, education and opinion-building to increase recognition of the potential of disaster reduction to save human lives and protect prope…
"Reducing vulnerability and increasing resilience to the climate has traditionally been the responsibility of households and communities. Experience shows that local decision making, diversity, and social learning are key features of flexible, resilient communities and that vulnerable communities can be effective agents of innovation and adaptation. But…