Latest news on Disaster Risk Reduction
- To mark the International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction, the RIISQ (Quebec InterSectoral Flood Network) is launching an interview conducted by Valérie Vermeulen with two experts in the field
- The AfDB teamed up with the ARC Group to establish the Africa Disaster Risk Financing Programme in 2018. This program enhances African countries’ resilience and response to climate shocks by improving their management of climate disaster risks.
- The AfDB teamed up with the ARC Group to establish the Africa Disaster Risk Financing Programme in 2018. This program enhances African countries’ resilience and response to climate shocks by improving their management of climate disaster risks.
- PLOS highlights recent studies published in PLOS ONE including one on an informal settlement in northwestern Colombia and a paper looking at how heat waves affect visitors to the Grand Canyon National Park. The authors give PLOS insights on their work.
- PLOS highlights recent studies published in PLOS ONE including one on an informal settlement in northwestern Colombia and a paper looking at how heat waves affect visitors to the Grand Canyon National Park. The authors give PLOS insights on their work.
- This article presents the case why targeting citizen's needs matters in disaster communication to not only establish trust between stakeholders working with disaster risk management organisations but also to improve citizen engagement during disasters.
- To prepare the local government and community to respond before, during, and after shocks, Bhotekoshi Rural Municipality organised a functional level forecast-based action-shock responsive social protection (FbA-SRSP) simulation in September 2023.
- Despite steps toward decreasing deforestation, uncontrolled wildfires are threatening environmental gains in Brazilian Amazonia, one of the world’s most critical carbon sinks and a region of high biological and cultural diversity.
- Despite steps toward decreasing deforestation, uncontrolled wildfires are threatening environmental gains in Brazilian Amazonia, one of the world’s most critical carbon sinks and a region of high biological and cultural diversity.
- A new center will bring together earthquake scientists to study the Cascadia Subduction Zone and clarify seismic hazards.