Latest news on Disaster Risk Reduction
- Conflicts in drought-stricken areas may make Thailand's seasonal drought get out of hand, while ONWR tackles the issue through water-sensitive farming policies.
- New UNDP partnership with BMD and RIMES aims to improve weather forecasting in Cox's Bazar, through a workshop for developing weather-forecasting application.
- As provinces in Thailand face severe drought, the government sets up a special command center to handle the crisis alongside related agencies.
- Recovery from the 2011 Queensland floods proved difficult, with lasting psychological impacts and the loss of homes and jobs; wildfires may pose similar problems.
- Claims of a Greens conspiracy to block hazard reduction rejected by bushfire experts; the extent of controlled burning depends on resources and weather windows.
- Cloud seeding used to prevent further rainfall over Jakarta, as flash floods and landslides cause 47 deaths while tens of thousands take cover in emergency shelters.
- Changes in extreme weather, such as tropical cyclones, are one of the most serious ways society experiences the impact of climate change. Advance forecasted conditional attribution statements, using a numerical model, were made about the anthropogenic climate change influence on an individual tropical cyclone, Hurricane Florence. Mean total overland...
- Ecosystem-based adaptation (EbA) — a subset of nature-based approaches to help people adapt to climate change — is an increasingly popular strategy. Evidence from 13 initiatives in 12 countries shows that EbA can provide important, wide-reaching and long-term benefits relating to adaptation, the environment, and social issues. However,...
- Himalayan river basin is marked by a complex topography with limited observational data. In the context of increasing extreme events, this study aims to characterize drought events in the Karnali River Basin (KRB). Firstly, historical data for 34-years (1981–2014) from ten different stations were analyzed to compute following drought indices:...
- Climate variability and change impacts are manifesting through declining rainfall totals and increasing frequency and intensity of droughts, floods and heatwaves. These environmental changes are affecting mostly rural populations in developing countries due to low adaptive capacity and high reliance on natural systems for their livelihoods. While broad...