Latest news on Disaster Risk Reduction
- Prambanan Temple, Indonesia, chosen as center of UNESCO pilot study to incorporate national heritage sites' disaster risk data into BNPB's natural hazard map.
- Lao PDR plans to continue to combat deadly hazards by utilizing available technologies and expertise through its partners in the region.
- The tool called 'Vulnerability Risk Assessment' was used in Namibia to help decision makers better understand how climate change and social vulnerabilities intersect.
- Australia sees growing calls for a national bushfire plan; such a plan should be multi-faceted, also covering hazards such as heatwaves and residential housefires.
- Coastal cities must factor in the potential damage to property and infrastructure caused by climate change.
- Kelantan suffers annual 'yellow' flooding, with natural flood protections stripped and sowed through mining, palm oil production, and plantations.
- Bangladesh's Cyclone Preparedness Programme to expand its coverage and develop a multi-hazard approach after new evacuation records were reached following Cyclone Bulbul.
- This report highlights how droughts and floods, insecurity and conflict are some of the causes that push millions of people into displacement every year, and are contributing to the increasing levels of internal displacement recorded across the continent. Internal displacement is a humanitarian, governance, development and security concern that needs...
- This training toolkit has been developed by Gorakhpur Environmental Action Group (GEAG) with technical and financial assistance of UNICEF. GEAG has extensive working experience on urban climate and disaster risk resilience. The aim of the toolkit is to provide a practical action guide to the city level stakeholders describing the various concepts, frameworks,...
- Six PhD scholarships are available under the Multihazard Risk theme, based in different New Zealand universities.