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The 2012 Sustainable Water Management Conference will be a true sustainability conference focused on water resources integration. This conference seeks to combine technical presentations with in-depth discussions on legal, regulatory, and legislative matters facing water utilities today.
The conference will address a wide range of…
The Context
On November 8, 2011, the Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Disaster Risk Reduction, Margareta Wahlström, noted that China “experienced more major reported disasters” in 2010 than any other country. They included successions of severe droughts and dust storms in Yunnan, Guizhou, Guangxi, Sichuan, Shanxi, Henan, Shaanxi,…
Purpose
During the second half of the 2Ost century earthquake engineering has advanced rapidly throughout the world, resulting in significant reductions of societal losses due to seismic events. however, since the turn of the century, catastrophic earthquakes such as the 2008 M8.0 Wenchuan Earthquake in China and the more recent 2011 M9.0 Japan earthqu…
Objective and Purpose of the Assignment
Fourth primary education development program (PEDP4) is to provide quality education to all children of Bangladesh from pre-primary up to Grade 5 through an efficient, inclusive and equitable education system. The result areas of the programs are 1: Quality (Curriculum, Textbooks and Teaching-Learning Materials,…
Asian Disaster Preparedness Center (ADPC) is looking for a vendor registered in Thailand that able to supply the necessary products that will be used to support emergency shelter in Ethiopia for Internally Displaced People (IDPs) and returnees. The items will be shipped to Ethiopia by ADPC to support NDRMC response to the crisis.
Therefore, we kindly r…
This document includes different session of Peer to Peer education for youth and children on disaster risk reduction (DRR). The flip chart includes session on child club, disaster and its impact, life saving skills, risk assessment and reduction plan and characteristics of resilient schools. Mercy Corps with the implementing partner Nepal Red Cross volu…
Dams are often built to control floods, but on certain kinds of rivers they may make big deluges worse, a new study finds. The finding suggests river managers might need to rethink their flood control strategies on silty and sandy lowland rivers.
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In addition to storing water, engineers expect dams to reduce flood risks by modifying the river dow…
A tornado cut a 270-kilometre path through Kentucky in mid-December 2021, killing 80 people, many in their homes or workplaces, and rendering thousands homeless. The incident prompted David Prevatt, a professor of structural engineering at the University of Florida, to write an opinion piece for the Washington Post, reminding Americans that ne…
This bill amends the Earthquake Hazards Reduction Act of 1977 to expand activities under the National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program to include:
gathering information on community resilience (i.e., the ability of a community to prepare for, recover from, and adapt to earthquakes);
publishing a systematic set of maps of active faults and folds,…
This book is a tale of a girl who must save her little brother. Its different chapters feature a lesson: the Earth's movements, earthquakes and their impact, tsunamis, as illustrated by the case of Japan, volcanoes with a definition of the various types of lava and their positive aspects, submarine; coastal volcanoes, the atmosphere, the El Niño phenome…
This action plan recommends steps which are required to make sure homes and businesses are more resilient. This includes undertaking research to better understand how properties can benefit from flood resilience measures. It recognises that property owners need to know where to get good advice.
Flooding is devastating for those affected – from the init…
Location
Melbourne, Barcelona and online
Description
There is an increasing need to respond to the displacement and destruction of communities and their infrastructure through both natural and manmade disasters. There is also the need to build the resilience of vulnerable communities in disaster-prone areas. Although there is now wide recognition of…
Location
Bangkok
Degree
Masters degree in civil engineering
Description
The programme aims to produce high quality graduates with a strong background in advanced technology who will efficiently contribute to the sustainable development of the region. Students are trained to acquire research abilities in addition to firm fundamentals and advanced te…
DescriptionThe Postgraduate Diploma in Emergency Management is designed for students who wish to broaden their knowledge in both disaster prevention and management. In its broadest sense, emergency management focuses on the organisation of communities to respond to disasters, to survive them, to rebuild social structures and infrastructure, and to susta…
This paper discusses how civil infrastructure systems play an important role in community resilience. Without proper functioning of the infrastructure, especially power delivery, society will not recover quickly from disruptive events, such as hurricanes. In this paper, the vulnerability, response, and recovery of selected infrastructure at the system l…