Latest news on Disaster Risk Reduction
- This research paper presents the current School Based Disaster Risk Reduction activities and Extended Reality (XR) technological landscape, analyses the shortcomings of traditional forms of SBDRR and how XR has the potential to address these. It also synthesizes and presents a range of learning on the inception, design, production, distribution, partnership...
- Bangladesh is one of the world’s poorest countries, criss-crossed by more than 230 of the world’s most unstable rivers. For poor families living in rural Bangladesh land is a scarce commodity and people have to make use of whatever space is available. Each year the situation is exasperated by flooding which restricts the time that...
- This scoping review provides a summary of research findings on social support dynamics in the aftermath of disasters that occurred on the continent of Australia and Oceania between 1983 and 2013. Forty‐one studies, both quantitative and qualitative, that investigated different facets of postdisaster supportive interactions were summarized. All investigations...
- Climate change's toll on aging U.S infrastructure - including over 600,000 bridge - demonstrates a need to rethink the nation's priority over bridge repair.
- Despite warnings of sea-level rise, many homeowners deny the need to act, for fear their property values will fall in value.
- Pediatrician and parent Aaron Bernstein discusses ways to build resilience in children to cope with disasters, tackling loss and instability, trauma and its symptoms.
- Africa Risk Capacity and UNCCD will collaborate to help Africa develop financial tools for building resilience for droughts, that have long decimated communities.
- The havoc wrought by Typhoon Hagibis was a grim reminder that extreme weather may now be the new norm in this disaster-prone nation.
- The final report of IPCC's climate crisis trilogy, documenting the grim future of oceans and cryosphere, is reviewed in an Indian context.
- Data shows less than half of cities have plans in place to deal with climate change impacts, even though most are experiencing them now.