Latest news on Disaster Risk Reduction
- During the National Civil Protection Week, CIMA participates in local and national events. The week starts in conjunction with the International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction of the United Nations.
- The impacts of the electricity cut are being disproportionately felt by those dependent on medical devices. The sense of community will be necessary for the next shutoff.
- GEM believes better understanding earthquake risk, and developing the capacity of DRR stakeholders, can significantly reduce fatalities, injuries and economic losses from disaster damage.
- Ahead of the International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction 2019, UNESCO organised an art contest which aims to generate awareness and a culture of resilience within children and youth.
- Scientists provide context and background to the fire hazards in Cape Town, and suggest steps that can be taken to help mitigate runaway fires in the region.
GENEVA, 11 October 2019 – Climate change is contributing to increasing damage to critical infrastructure around the globe, according to a twelve-year survey of damages caused by small- and medium-scale disasters conducted by the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction.
Schools, health facilities and roads are regularly damaged by small-scale weather events which do…
- All communities are at risk of emergencies and disasters including those associated with infectious disease outbreaks, conflicts, and natural, technological and other hazards. The health, economic, political and societal consequences of these events can be devastating. Climate change, unplanned urbanization, population growth and displacement, antimicrobial...
- Retreat from some areas will become unavoidable under intensifying climate change. Existing deployments of managed retreat are at small scale compared to potential future needs, leaving open questions about where, when, and how retreat under climate change will occur. Here, we analyze more than 40,000 voluntary buyouts of flood-prone properties in the...
- Current flood risk strategies in Malawi are characterized by community-based flood risk management (CB-FRM), even though studies explicitly documenting evidence of successful CB-FRM remain limited. This paper investigates the realities and challenges of CB-FRM as seen through a lens of different stakeholders. In order to capture the experiences of CB-FRM,...
- This paper investigates the potential catalyst role of insurance for climate adaptation and how climate risk information emanating from insurance processes can support a move towards anticipatory climate risk management, which includes loss prevention and adaptation. The research considers and identifies the...