Nigeria annual flood outlook 2024
The 2024 Flood Outlook report offers a comprehensive assessment of flood risk across the country, highlighting critical areas of concern and strategic recommendations for mitigation and preparedness. Through
Disaster Preparedness
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Building regulation for resilience: managing risks for safer cities
Over the past two centuries, effective building and land use regulation have dramatically reduced incidences of urban conflagration and epidemic disease. In the developed world, such regulation has resulted
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Order of the Supreme Court of India regarding minimum standards of relief for victims of disaster, 05/04/2016
<div> Disaster management plans as per Section 11 of the Disaster Management Act, 2005 needs to be made to tackle the post disaster situations: Supreme Court </div> <div> Looking into the poor state of Disaster management in the country, Supreme Court on April 5, 2016 directed the Union of India and the States to submit an affidavit showing whether there is any approved plan that frames minimum standards of relief for victims of disaster. The Court also directed the National Disaster Management Authority to communicate to the concerned Chief Secretaries of the States where the districts in respect of which the plans have not been drawn up and to see to it that the plans are drawn up as stipulated under Section 31 of the Disaster Management Act, 2005.</div>
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River flood risk in Jakarta under scenarios of future change
<p>Given the increasing impacts of flooding in Jakarta, methods for assessing current and future flood risk are required. In this paper, we use the Damagescanner-Jakarta risk model to project changes in
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MyShake' app, a personal tsunami warning system
When an earthquake strikes literally every second counts. That was the case 5 years ago when a magnitude 9 quake unleashed a massive tsunami that devastated Japan. A seismological network kicked into
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Ethiopia: City Govt, Foundation Sign MOU to Assess Earthquake Risk
The City Government of Addis Ababa and Global Earthquake Model (GEM) Foundation yesterday signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) that will enable them to work together on earthquake risk assessment
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The economic cost of the social impact of natural disasters
The Australian Business Roundtable for Disaster Resilience & Safer Communities released ‘The Economic Cost Of The Social Impact Of Natural Disasters’. This report looks at the costs and long-term social
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Promoting sustainable development through disaster risk management
This paper highlights a number of ways in which disaster risk management financing and governance can be used to advance sustainable development and, likewise, in which development actions can be used
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Tsunami hazard warning and risk prediction based on inaccurate earthquake
<p>This study investigates the issues related to underestimation of the earthquake source parameters in the context of tsunami early warning and tsunami risk assessment. The magnitude of a very large event
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Preparedness in disaster situations- Lessons from Chennai floods 2015
Serious epidemics after the December 2015 floods in Chennai were averted by prompt preventive action initiated by the government which was supported by NGOs and citizen groups. This article highlights
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MyShake: A smartphone seismic network for earthquake early warning and beyond
<p>Large magnitude earthquakes in urban environments continue to kill and injure tens to hundreds of thousands of people, inflicting lasting societal and economic disasters. Earthquake early warning (EEW)