Latest news on Disaster Risk Reduction
- UK Environment Agency and the AA urge drivers to stay away from flood water, as driving through flood water is the leading cause of death during flooding.
- Research suggests commuters traveling from the suburbs to cities are going to encounter hotter than expected weather when in they reach their destination.
- Scientists fear climate change will drive a surge in bushfires that create their own violent thunderstorms, as 2019 becomes the standout year for pyroCBs.
- Bangladesh must put in place a supply chain resilient to natural calamities and the impacts of climate change in order to cut economic losses stemming from disasters.
- IIED research identifies ways to improve climate change reporting by aligning global and national activity, helping join aggregate data on climate adaption.
- Water flow in the rivers of Central Asia is defined by a multitude of factors – climate, terrain and soil types, and weather extremes. This report highlights key research findings on five important river basins across Central Asia, and presents the visual material with short annotations for a lay readership.Temperature, precipitation, the...
- Global warming leads to increased melting of snow and glaciers and thawing of permafrost, and thus affects the overall water balance. The mountain cryosphere is already changing and will continue to change considerably towards the end of this century, depending on emission pathways.These changes will dramatically alter the resource bases of the communities...
- Australia urgently needs a dedicated, independently administered fund to meet the escalating costs of natural disasters due to global warming.Natural disasters already cost Australians over $13 billion every year. These costs will escalate over coming years and decades as the frequency and intensity of natural disasters increases due to climate change....
- Eswatini, as the rest of southern Africa, is being frequented by drought over the last decade, and modelling experts are predicting that drought years will become more and severe. The expected increase in extreme climatic events makes the use of drought indices essential for drought monitoring and early warning. To enable Eswatini to better prepare,...
- This paper analyzes the effectiveness of innovative decision-support tools relating to disaster risk reduction projects, with particular focus on Asia.Despite solid evidence of the benefits of reducing disaster risk, it remains difficult to motivate investment in disaster risk reduction. International debate emphasizes investments that generate multiple...