Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In Re: News Item titled "Are missing palm trees causing more lighting deaths in Bihar appearing in ‘The Times of India’ dated 29.05.2025". The original application was registered suo-motu based on the news item titled "Are missing palm trees causing …
The ministry of Disaster Management and Refugee Affairs (Midimar) has launched a web portal that will help facilitate disaster data and information sharing as well as improve response to disasters. The portal is being developed with support from Regional Centre for Mapping of Resources for Development (RCMRD). Seraphine Mukantabana, the …
SAVAE: Save lives, property from unfolding disaster With heavy rainfall bringing back floods to the valley within seven months, Environment Watchdog, South Asian Voluntary Association of Environmentalists [SAVAE] has said that nothing could move the government of Jammu and Kashmir over the past many months regarding disaster prevention. The organization …
DHAKA : The World Bank (WB) will construct at least 330 new cyclone shelters in the cyclone prone areas of Bangladesh by 2017, reports BSS. Official sources said the WB under its Emergency 2007 Cyclone Recovery and Restoration Project (ECRRP) has already constructed 136 multipurpose disaster shelters that double up …
Less than two weeks after Cyclone Pam tore through the Pacific island nation of Vanuatu, 110,000 people have no safe drinking water and some 75,000 urgently need shelter, the United Nations said on Tuesday as it launched an appeal for $29.9 million. The appeal aims to help an estimated 166,000 …
The world’s first academy for humanitarian relief is to be launched, aimed at training 100,000 aid workers from over 50 countries in organising rapid responses to disasters and emergencies. The Humanitarian Leadership Academy, launching on Monday, is a response to the growing number of humanitarian crises around the world, driven …
AMID the increasing threat posed by climate change, representatives from 187 UN member States last week adopted the first major agreement of the Post-2015 development agenda, a far-reaching new framework for disaster risk reduction with seven targets and four priorities for action. The U.N. World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction …
PORT VILA – Japan is considering extending $1.2 million in emergency grant aid to Vanuatu and other Pacific nations devastated by powerful Cyclone Pam, a senior government official said Sunday. At his meeting with Vanuatuan Foreign Minister Sato Kilman, Parliamentary Vice Foreign Minister Kentaro Sonoura said Tokyo is ready to …
As California copes with a fourth straight year of drought, Gov. Jerry Brown and legislative leaders on Thursday proposed legislation to accelerate more than $1 billion in water spending and urged residents to do their part to conserve. Winter is ending in California without enough snow and rain to replenish …
VADODARA: In an attempt to get an insight into how Vishwamitri river behaves when water is discharged from Ajwa reservoir, Vadodara Municipal Corporation (VMC) is working towards developing a model that will help in mitigating floods. The mathematical model will help the VMC predict what will be situation of the …
The U.N. World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction ended Thursday, making the first move to set specific goals and a time frame to mitigate the risks and damage of disasters amid the increasing threat posed by climate change. Under a new 15-year action plan adopted in Sendai, the governments of …
Q&A with Chris Field: The link between climate change and disaster risk reduction. Chris Field says that intergovernmental processes are really more about creatively encouraging ambition than mandating it.
Bangladesh will soon replicate the disaster management system being used in Kerala for tackling natural calamities in the country. A 10-member team from Bangladesh visited the disaster management wing at Kakkanad civil station the other day to learn about the disaster management systems being used in the state. “Our country …
This document explains how investing in disaster risk management (DRM) can yield real benefits in the short and the long-term. It states that reducing disaster-related ‘background risk’ enables forward-looking planning, long-term capital investments, and entrepreneurship. In addition, and regardless of whether a disaster hits or not, it explains that DRM …
This case study explains the vulnerability and exposure of Valenzuela City to flood risk and elaborates on the impacts caused by the frequent flooding. Following, it presents the Partners for Resilience (PfR) programme implemented in Valenzuela aim to build resilient communities by integrating climate change adaptation and ecosystem management and …
Nearly a quarter of damages wrought by natural disasters on the developing world are borne by the agricultural sector according to initial results from a new FAO study released at the UN World Conference for Disaster Risk Reduction. The Organization also announced the launch of a special facility aimed at …
Home Minister Rajnath Singh has assured Japan and Russia of "bilateral cooperation in disaster management" during bilateral meetings at the 3rd UN World Conference on disaster risk reduction, an official here said. The home minister exchanged views in bilateral meetings with ministers of Japan and Russia at the UN World …
The experience feedback on a crisis that hit a city is frequently used as a "recollection" tool. To capitalize information about an experience feedback from the cities that have been affected by a natural hazard, the authors propose in this study a functional model to model scenarios of city crises. …
The Third UN World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction, scheduled to convene in Sendai, Japan from March 14-18, will adopt a new framework for disaster risk reduction for the coming 15 years. "Leaders and decision-makers across Asia and the Pacific are preparing to finalize a new global framework for disaster …
When a massive earthquake and tsunami triggered a meltdown at the nearby Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant, Yumi Kanno did not hesitate. She grabbed her 2-year-old son and aging in-laws and fled to her parents' house two hours away. Four years later, Kanno and her extended family are still unable to …
The current paper provides a review of natural disasters and their impacts in Asia and the Pacific by disaster type, subregion and level of development. The first section looks at the occurrence of natural disaster events. This is followed by an analysis of fatalities and economic loss in sections two …
