Latest news on Disaster Risk Reduction
- This report, open for review, presents the results of a survey on what technical assistance might be needed by Parties to avert, minimize and address loss and damage.
- The project brings together organisations and partners across Europe and beyond, to investigate how social media and crowdsourcing can be used in disaster management.
- Scientists say tall buildings across Metro Vancouver will experience greater shaking than currently accounted for by Canada's national seismic hazard model.
- This Atlantic hurricane season had the most named storms, with 30, taking the record from the calamitous 2005 season that brought Hurricane Katrina to New Orleans.
- What if there is a major earthquake near Cologne? This scenario is the subject of a report recently submitted to the German Bundestag.
- This paper reports on the round tables held in the UK, the USA and New Zealand discussing the resilience of critical infrastructure systems. The paper strives to advance the application of resilience thinking in engineering practice. It explores how industry best practice is evolving. Lack of strategic oversight to coordinate response to resilience...
- In Germany, several initiatives to disseminate public warnings and behavioural advices by government agencies and organizations responsible for safety and security directly to the affected people via smartphone applications (App) have been developed and implemented.NINA, the 'Emergency Information and News App' of the Federal Office of Civil...
- An affordable and community-based approach with high potential for transferability. Simple and effective local flood early warning systems (LFEWS) allow local authorities and municipalities improve their ability to predict and warn flooding events and to respond more effectively at the water catchment area level. Through the successful implementation...
- The document presents a German-Indonesian cooperation for tsunamy early warning, an initiative of the German Government to support the development of a Tsunami Early Warning Systems (TEWS) in the Indian ocean. All TEWS activities in the Indian Ocean Region have been and are still coordinated by an Intergovernmental Coordination Group (ICG)...
- This report is one of the outcomes of the Acequia ‘Climate change, droughts and water uses in Gran Canaria’ workshop, and has a twofold objective. Firstly, it summarises the main conclusions obtained in the Acequia workshop and secondly, it also aims to move a step forward in proposing more detailed actions to tackle drought...