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 urban resilience: principles, tools and practice
This handbook is a resource for enhancing disaster resilience in urban areas. It summarizes the guiding principles, tools and practice in key economic sectors that can facilitate the implementation of
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Meeting the urban challenge: adapting humanitarian efforts to an urban world
This document provides an overview of current thinking and emerging good practice related to humanitarian action in an urban environment. It is based on the discussions held at the 27th Meeting of the
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Flood vulnerability analysis of the part of Karad region, Satara District, Maharashtra using remote sensing and Geographic Information System technique
Karad City is situated on the bank of confluence of river Krishna & Koyana, which is severely flood prone area. The floodwaters enter the city through the roads and disrupt the infrastructure in the whole
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UK Minister announces Rs 2 billion for earthquake preparedness in Nepal
British Minister of State for International Development Alan Duncan has announced 17 million pound sterling (approx. Rs 2 billion) vital funding support for earthquake preparedness in Nepal. The amount
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Bangladesh: a sustainable and disaster resilient future
This document addresses how people in disaster prone areas of Bangladesh are at risk to lose their lives, land, and livelihoods due to floods, cyclones, earthquakes and drought, and how sustainable development
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How safe are our rural structures? Lessons from the 2011 Sikkim Earthquake
Increasing frequency and intensity of earthquakes has renewed the urgency in improving the preparedness and in making the infrastructure earthquake-resistant. Sikkim, a northeastern Indian Himalayan state,
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Climate extreme: how young people can respond to disasters in a changing world
This "child-friendly" climate change report considers the vital role children play in community disaster risk reduction activities in Asia. Instead of seeing them as nothing more than victims in disasters,
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Latest Tokyo Earthquake Projection: 9,700 Could Die
In the wake of last year’s devastating Tohoku earthquake and tsunami, the Tokyo metropolitan government has revised its own disaster scenarios for the first time in six years. The chilling result: As many
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Tsunami simulations scare Japan
Updated risk assessment warns Japan to prepare for much larger earthquakes and waves.
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Govt allocates Rs 23,000 cr for disaster mgmt
With an aim to effectively manage disasters, the Government has allotted Rs 23,000 crore for developing disaster management infrastructure at the state, district and panchayat levels across the country.