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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Linking relief, rehabilitation and development: A role for urban agriculture?
Natural hazards, civil conflicts, wars and economic crises continue to generate unstable and unsafe conditions, placing immense pressures on communities and local livelihoods. These emergency scenarios often result in people fleeing their homes to
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UNICEF humanitarian action report 2009
This report highlights the plight of children and women around the globe in humanitarian emergencies, such as conflict situations and natural disasters. The report outlines UNICEF
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Boiling point: containing the spill over of climate change on the Indian subcontinent
There are some things that can be arrived at, through deliberation, while there are a few
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The humanitarian costs of climate change
Using existing international databases that track disaster occurrence and humanitarian costs, this research attempts to improve understanding of how climate change may affect
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History in a sheet of sand
600 years ago, a tsunami hit the Indian Ocean. Some lessons THE Indian Ocean Tsunami System Programme, costing US $16. 6m, ended in March this year, amidst hopes that it would check the devastation that occurred in 2004. The 2004 tsunami
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Disaster management action plan for floods and cyclones
The basic objective of this Disaster Management Action Plan for Cyclone and Flood is to protect all its residents and every kinds of wealth from all sorts of untoward incidents through the following objectives.
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Linking disaster risk reduction and poverty reduction: good practices and lessons learned
Natural hazards, which are becoming more intense and frequent, have a devastating impact on the world
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Indigenous knowledge for disaster risk reduction in South Asia
This report by SDMC documents the indigenous knowledge of different communities living in multi-hazard zones Nepal, Sri Lanka and India. Shows that communities use the indigenous knowledge to anticipate natural hazard that afflicts them to prepare better to face the disaster.
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Costs and benefits of flood mitigation in the Lower Bagmati Basin
The purpose of this paper is to present the results of a systematic qualitative analysis of the costs and benefits of constructing embankments in the lower Bagmati River basin, which stretches across the Nepal Tarai and into northern Bihar. This paper analyzes the costs and benefits of both structural flood control measures, and a wide array of local, "people-centered" strategies.
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Mobile-based application for data on disaster preparedness
BHUBANESWAR: A new mobile-based application, designed by Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), will now generate accurate geo-spatial data on magnitude of disaster and help assessment leading to an effective management strategy in the country.