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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Climate smart disaster risk management
<p>This report presents a new approach to disaster risk management: ‘climate smart disaster risk management’ (CSDRM) approach. It is primarily for those working in disaster risk management and climate change adaptation. It will also be critical reading for those working more broadly on vulnerability and poverty reduction programmes within or outside government.</p>
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Disasters in Asia: the case for legal preparedness
This report highlights how better legislation can help to significantly reduce the human suffering caused by the growing number of natural disasters.
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Slum Dwellers Most Vulnerable To Disasters: Red Cross
About one billion slum dwellers in developing countries are vulnerable to disasters because they live in congested and poorly built houses without emergency services, the Red Cross said in a report released Tuesday. Fewer people die from cyclones, floods and earthquakes in countries with planned housing, infrastructure and emergency teams, but lack of financial capacity in developing countries,
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Experts issue clarion call for quake preparedness
Bangladesh may expect a major earthquake to hit anytime as experts said 'radio carbon' analysis suggests the major quakes return within 250 to 300 years and the country has already exhausted nearly 250 years since a major earthquake struck in 1762. Earthquake expert Professor Mehedi Ahmed Ansary told BSS on Friday: "Bangladesh saw eight major earthquakes of high intensity up to eight on the Ric
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BD at threshold of big scale earthquake: Seismic expert
Bangladesh is at the threshold of a big scale earthquake that might happen anytime, a seismic expert has apprehended. Dr Syed Humayun Akhter, Professor of Geology Department of Dhaka University, said the recent small scale tremors signal big earthquake ahead and it is imperative to take immediate preparedness to face such a calamity. In an interview with UNB senior staff correspondent Rashed Ahm
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Every port must have its contingency plan in place
Rashme Sehgal
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Programme to showcase best practices in disaster management
Ahmedabad: A number of villages in Maliya, Junagadh have big Geographic Information System (GIS) maps put up in the main area of the village where there are specific routes marked for people to take in case there are floods or any other disaster to reach the safe spot.
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Securing lifelines during a disaster
Vinod Thomas and Ronald S. Parker CATASTROPHE: The floods in Pakistan are estimated to have been worse than the scale of the devastating 2004 tsunami. The frequency and intensity of natural disasters have been on the rise in recent decades.
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ICG must brace up to tackle oil spill disasters
THE Coast Guard has to urgently address the requirement of augmenting the response capabilities at the highest level in order to avert calamities following any oil spill, a top official with the organisation responsible for various services at sea said on Wednesday. This was necessary given the environmental hazards arising out of such an event, pointed out DIG B S Yadav, Commander, Coast Guard
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Adaptive social protection: mapping the evidence and policy context in the agriculture sector in South Asia
<p>The concept of Adaptive Social Protection (ASP) refers to a series of measures which aims to build resilience of the poorest and most vulnerable people to climate change by combining elements of social protection (SP), disaster risk reduction (DRR) and climate change adaptation (CCA) in programmes and projects.