Latest news on Disaster Risk Reduction
- Residents of many Canadian provinces enjoy reasonably reliable electricity service, finds the Globe and Mail in a new analysis—but reliability differs among provinces, with services in the country’s northern territories remaining largely unexamined.
- In a refresher training course for weather observers at VMGD’s headquarters in Port Vila participants learned new techniques and procedures for using and maintaining observation instruments as well as how to interpret weather data.
- In a refresher training course for weather observers at VMGD’s headquarters in Port Vila participants learned new techniques and procedures for using and maintaining observation instruments as well as how to interpret weather data.
- This chapeau paper provides a high-level overview of financing mechanisms, their purposes, and opportunities to increase financing for disaster risk management.
- This chapeau paper provides a high-level overview of financing mechanisms, their purposes, and opportunities to increase financing for disaster risk management.
- This thematic position paper outlines how the global battle to reduce disaster losses by 2030 will be won or lost in Asia and the Pacific.
- This thematic position paper outlines how the global battle to reduce disaster losses by 2030 will be won or lost in Asia and the Pacific.
- Satellites and on-the-ground sensors are helping Kenya, Ghana and Zambia tackle inundation risks and farmers cope with drought.
- Satellites and on-the-ground sensors are helping Kenya, Ghana and Zambia tackle inundation risks and farmers cope with drought.
- Aiming to address the conceptual gap in coherent policy research in the fields of climate change and sustainable development, the authors performed coherence analysis research, categorized the different approaches, and defined methodology.