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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World’s biggest hurricane simulator aims to improve forecasts
MIAMI – The world’s largest hurricane simulator is now complete, and experts hope it will improve forecasters’ ability to predict how strong a storm will get, which has been a key weak spot for science
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Kirtipur locals form panel for disaster management
KATHMANDU, APR 09 - Local people in Kirtipur have formed a Disaster Management Committee to improve preparedness for natural disaster s such as earthquake in the area. The committee, in which 50 percent
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Hong Kong people not ready to deal with natural disasters, experts say
Experts cite study showing Hongkongers underestimate how vulnerable they are From fires to landslides, epidemics to typhoons, Hong Kong is in the firing line for a whole range of natural disasters -
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Disaster damage expected to hit $300 billion yearly as events intensify
Investing in insurance programs for poor farmers today could save tens of billions of dollars in coming decades as climate change upsets growing patterns and makes harvests fail, U.N. officials said ahead
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Global assessment report on disaster risk reduction 2015
<p>An investment of US$6 billion annually in disaster risk management would result in avoided losses of US$360 billion over the next 15 years says this fourth edition of the United Nations Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction (GAR). </p>
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The human cost of natural disasters: a global perspective
This report presents data about natural disasters impacts (human and economic) at world scale for the last 20 years. The analyses focus on trends and patterns of impacts and how these varies regarding
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Finance for reducing disaster risk: 10 things to know
This document focuses on the basics of disaster risk reduction (DRR) finance and the opportunities that the Post-2015 development finance landscape can offer. In the post-2015 framework for disaster risk
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Application of flood risk modelling in a web-based geospatial decision support tool for coastal adaptation to climate change
A pressing problem facing coastal decision makers is the conversion of "high level" but plausible climate change assessments into an effective basis for climate change adaptation at the local scale. Here,
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Landslide early warning based on failure forecast models: the example of Mt. de La Saxe rockslide, northern Italy
We investigate the use of landslide failure forecast models by exploiting near-real-time monitoring data. Starting from the inverse velocity theory, we analyze landslide surface displacements on different
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Extreme sea events during the last millennium in the northeast of Morocco
The Moroccan Mediterranean coast is located in one of the area's most vulnerable to extreme weather events or tsunami hazards. The objective of this research is to reconstruct the historical extreme submersion-event