Latest news on Disaster Risk Reduction
- This technical paper on women’s voices and agencies in community-based disaster risk reduction (CBDRR) draws on the Gender-Focused Situation Analysis carried out in project sites of the members of the Afghanistan Resilience Consortium (ARC). The ARC has been implementing the DFID-supported Strengthening Resilience of Vulnerable Communities...
- This report aims to contribute to a better understanding of land subsidence in the Mekong Delta. There are different drivers affecting the sinking land surface in the region. To what extent is the land sinking? In which locations? Is it occurring quickly or slowly? These are simple questions. Based on existing data it is not difficult to answer these...
- Increasing disasters and their associated devastating impacts on society have called into question the capacity of countries to address disaster occurrences. Hitherto, primary disaster management institutions have addressed disaster in a piecemeal manner, commonly through the distribution of relief items after occurrence of disasters.Considering this...
- University students, software developers, tech start-up leaders and computer engineers meet to create innovative ways of aiding Rio with climate change losses.
- Australia and California both experience major wildfires, yet the former is far ahead of the United States in relation to its early warning systems.
- SROCC report explains changing climate is causing oceans to become warmer, more acidic, and to lose oxygen, the effects of which has severe implications for Indonesia.
- Low-frequency rumbles that herald tornadoes could be used to predict when and where they will strike, with the potential to detect a tornado from over 100 miles.
- World Bank issues catastrophe-linked bonds to provide the Philippines with financial protection, up to US$75 million for earthquakes, and US$150 million for cyclones.
- Facing a range of natural hazards exacerbated by climate change, Cabo Verde joins a growing number of island nations enlisting the help of the Pacific Disaster Center.
- University of South Florida geoscientists develop high-tech shallow water buoy that can detect changes in seafloor that are often a precursor to deadly natural hazards.