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UNDRR-AIT Joint Training: Strengthening Cities Resilience to Climate and Disaster Risks

Regional Resource Centre for Asia and the Pacific
United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction - Office in Incheon for Northeast Asia and Global Education and Training Institute for Disaster Risk Reduction
United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction - Regional Office for Asia and Pacific
People crossing road with umbrella in rain at Matunga in Mumbai Maharashtra India
Community announcement

Call for papers: The whole anticipatory action community can learn from your experience

The Anticipation Hub is among the guest editors of a special issue of Hydrology Research entitled ‘Learning from the Floods of 2021: Combining Data, Models and Communication to Improve Preparedness for Extreme Events in a Changing Climate’.
Unidentified street vendor works with reused tin containers at Port Blair, India (2012)
Blog
Kevin Blanchard

Data, disasters, and hyper-marginalised groups

Hyper-marginalisation increases levels of vulnerability within a part of society that already experiences discrimination, and as a result can experience the impacts of disasters or crisis situations as more severe and harder to recover from.
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Documents and publications

Invisible again: Hyper-marginalised groups and disaster data

This report provides several recommendations on how DRR professionals can better implement data collection and make sure that is both useful and sensitive to the specific challenges of working with hyper-marginalised communities.
Updates

The digital age of climate change adaptation

Climate data contributes to the immediate forecasts we see on the local weather channel, but it’s long term collection reveals the linear trajectory of our changing climate.
Journalist writing notes in his phone and on paper while holding his microphone in a heavy flooded area in Thailand.
Community announcement

Reporting on locally led adaptation to climate change

This training opportunity will offer 12 multimedia journalists a chance to deepen their understanding of the impacts of climate change at a local level, and hone their skills to draw urgent attention to them through news reporting.
Dhaka, Bangladesh
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Knowledge Management Consultant

The Preparedness for Response and Recovery (PRR) Department of ADPC focuses on enhancing the preparedness, response management capacities of governments, response organizations, volunteers, non-governmental organizations, the private sector, communities.
Thunderstorm over fields in South Africa.
Updates

Severe storms expose ill-equipped weather stations in Southeast Africa

The lack of infrastructure is preventing scientists from robustly reporting meteorological information as well as communicating warnings about hazard-prone areas.
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Documents and publications

Appetite for Natech risk information in Japan: Understanding citizens’ communicative behavior towards risk information disclosure around Osaka Bay

This study ventures to assess whether residents around Osaka Bay have a demand, or “appetite,” for risk information disclosure, as well as to understand their communicative behavior and perceived challenges in the Japanese context.
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Documents and publications

A near-real-time global landslide incident reporting tool demonstrator using social media and artificial intelligence

The development of a system that monitors social media continuously for general landslide-related content using a landslide classification model to identify and retain the most relevant information is described and validated.