Latest news on Disaster Risk Reduction
- The realization that national actions alone are insufficient to tackling climate change has brought focus onto the importance of sub-national entities.
- Building on Nkwunonwo's study on flooding in Nigeria, this article underlines the need for a robust and scientific approach to flood risk reduction in the area.
- Climate action must combine targets, treatise, and big R&D budgets with social innovation from the bottom up, as cutting carbon depends on changing social norms.
- Australia will be one of the earliest countries to suffer from climate change, causing parts of the region to be deemed uninsurable, says ICA.
- Coastal cities are reclaiming land as a barrier against rising water – then selling it off. But critics argue that climate change defense should not be a business model.
- Director General of Nigerian Conservation Foundation, Dr Muhtari Aminu-Kano, discusses how a lack of planning from authorities exacerbates flooding in the region.
- The early alert system for seismic activity in California is much needed in Bangladesh, located near two tectonic faults. A collective effort is needed to do so.
- By Sophie Shares
Mami Mitzutori, Special Representative of the Secretary-General of the United Nations for Disaster Risk Reduction and Head of the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR), visits Mexico's Chiapas state on Monday to see how an earthquake-destroyed village is rebuilding and how community projects are boosting resilience in the country's poorest…
- A workshop by the Community Disaster Risk Reduction Fund informs communities in Southern Belize how climate change and disasters could impact their livelihood.
- Firefighters in northern California battled to control wildfires fueled by el diablo winds, the largest of which forced at least 185,000 people to evacuate their homes.