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For communities land use planning is more effective than logging on federal lands to reduce future wildfire disasters
The President issued an executive order last month that instructs federal land managers to treat 8.45 million acres of land and cut 4.4 billion board feet of timber. But land use planning, not logging on feder…
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Construction and earthquake expert Prof Jamilur Reza Choudhury, urban expert Prof Nazrul Islam, architect and urban planner Iqbal Habib, and Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET) Civil Engineering Department Prof Mehedi Ahmed Ansari attributed the rise in fire incidents to: unplanned urbanization, the violation of building c…
The Building Regulatory Capacity Assessment was developed to help cities and project managers working with development agencies to implement to assess building and land use regulatory systems, and facilitate the collection of critical information about the building regulatory framework in any given city or country. This assessment tool offers an ef…
This solutions brief offers lessons from Japan for developing countries seeking to increase the safety of the built environment through the use of building regulation as a tool, in an incremental, context-specific approach. The brief summarises lessons for policymakers, practitioners and project managers:
Regulation should be understood as a tool to…
This publication aims at policy makers and leading engineers for formulating necessary policies and technical training for securing safety on non-engineered construction. The publication includes information and case studies as well as an overview of gaps in this subject, damage of the construction and engineering/social/academic approaches, d…
The Climate Change Adaptation Planning in Latin American and Caribbean Cities project is designed to inform policy making and climate change adaptation planning in small and medium-sized cities. The focus is on floods and landslides, which are two of the most common climate-related risks in cities across the Latin America and Caribbean region. This repo…
This publication is a synthesis of lessons from more than a decade of Concern Worldwide’s disaster risk reduction (DRR) programming in coastal geographic contexts. Based on research in Port au Prince, Haiti; Dhaka, Bangladesh; Nairobi, Kenya; and Freetown, Sierra Leone, this publication describes Concern’s approach to DRR and offers lessons and guidance…
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 gives an overview of action that can be taken to adapt cities in Europe and the progress made over the last couple of years, and it puts this in relation to the future challenges that the impacts of climate change pose. It targets local, regional, national and European governments and organisations as well …
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…
As relief efforts continue in the wake of the devastating quake which struck Haiti last week, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today emphasized the need to rebuild the impoverished Caribbean nation and “turn disaster into opportunity.”
Addressing the General Assembly this morning, Mr. Ban said the emergency response to the 7.0 magnitude quake must shift i…
Pakistan would like to 'build back better' but will need international assistance, a top official stated in Bangkok this week.
"we would certainly hope that international community would... come up up with the requisite resource level required to help those people who have been deeply affected," said Pakistan's Ambassador to Thailand, Sohail Mahmood on…
Improving the resiliency of cities is critical to disaster mitigation in Asia, according to specialists.
“Cities are more vulnerable because there are a higher concentration of people at risk; at the same time they are the economic engine so the impact of the damage is greater,” N.M.S.I Arambepola, direct of Urban Disaster Risk Management with the Asia…
The densely populated Bangladeshi capital of Dhaka, which lies dangerously close to a major fault line, comprises thousands of shoddily engineered buildings at risk of collapse in a powerful earthquake, experts warn.
Almost 80,000 buildings would be destroyed if a six magnitude tremor originated beneath Dhaka, according to a government study. A 7.5-mag…
Islamabad - The devastating 7.6 magnitude earthquake that struck northwestern Pakistan in October 2005 led to the establishment of a government body tasked with coordinating the emergency response, early recovery and reconstruction of homes and infrastructure in an area spanning 30,000sqkm of mountainous terrain.
The Earthquake Relief and Rehabilitatio…