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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Rs 268.549 million scheme to ensure safety of Katcha Kharif Bund
The government has decided to extend stone apron and pitching along (Katcha Kharif) bund in district Kashmore, to protect agriculture land, buildings, communication, highway and other infrastructure from the heavy flood of River Indus. According to sources, main objective of the scheme was to ensure safety of the K.K Bund and earlier completion of the work before the coming flood season.
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Adaptation to climate change: linking disaster risk reduction and insurance
This paper is an initial attempt to consider the role in adaptation of insurance and related risk sharing and risk transfer methods, in the context of a comprehensive approach to risk reduction and risk management.
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Global assessment report on disaster risk reduction 2009: risk and poverty in a changing climate
This is the first biennial global assessment of disaster risk reduction prepared in the context of the International Strategy for Disaster Reduction. It focuses on the nexus between disaster risk and poverty, in a context of global climate change.
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Disaster and Crisis Management seminar today
Sialkot Chamber of Commerce and Industry (SCCI) has taken the direly needed initiative to create awareness among its members regarding the importance of Disaster and Crises Management.
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Bhuj gets new quake-resistant jail
Ahmedabad/Bhuj: The new jail in this town on the Indo-Pak border is finally ready. The 100-year-old Bhuj jail had collapsed in the January 26 quake of 2001 and more than 150 inmates, including six Pakistanis, booked for smuggling RDX into Gujarat, had escaped.
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Can global warming make Indian monsoon weather less predictable?
Reliable medium range prediction of monsoon weather is crucial for disaster preparedness. Weather in tropics, controlled by fast growing convective instabilities is, however, intrinsically less predictable than that in extra?tropics.
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Norway to help manage post-quake situation
Norway yesterday pledged aiding Bangladesh in social safety-net programmes and managing post-earthquake situation.
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Govt pulls up CR, AAI for poor rain preparedness
Mumbai: The government has pulled up Central Railway (CR) and the Airports Authority of India (AAI) for their lack of preparedness for the monsoon. At the first pre-monsoon disaster management meeting on Friday, additional chief secretary (home) Chandra Iyengar had called officials from various state, central and semigovernment agencies.
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Two more seismic wave monitoring centres
The Geological Survey and Mines Bureau (GSMB) will establish two more seismic wave monitoring centres at Mahakanadarawa, Anuradhapura and Hakmana before the end of this year, to enhance the measuring capacity of earth tremors.
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Earthquakes Many Mysteries Stymie Efforts to Predict Them
Almost all earthquakes are small. A small segment of a fault, miles underground, jerks a little, the rumble imperceptible at the surface. But with a few quakes, the fault continues breaking, the ground jumps several feet and the world shakes in cataclysm.