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Displaying 30 of about 130 resultsFrom the 19th to 21st of August 2014, the city of Hiroshima in Japan experienced a torrential rainfall triggering 166 landslides, which led to 107 debris flows and 59 shallow slides. These landslides were compounded by flash flooding. The consequence of the landslides and flooding led to 74 deaths in the two wards of Asa-Kita and Asa-Minami,…
FAO-Global Information and Early Warning System (GIEWS) and the Climate and Environment Division (CBC) have developed an “Agricultural Stress Index System” (ASIS) for detecting agricultural areas with a high likelihood of water stress (drought) on a global scale using remote sensing data with the technical assistance and advice from the Flemish Institut…
The Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction's first global target is to “substantially reduce global disaster mortality by 2030, aiming to lower the average per 100 000 global mortality rate in the decade 2020–2030 compared to the period 2005–2015”. To measure success against meeting this target, mortality needs to be accurately quantified and int…
This document is the eighth in a series of special topics for consideration, as part of the Words into Action Guidelines on National Disaster Risk Assessment published by UNISDR. This section provides a general introduction for the use of crowdsourcing as an approach to gathering information for risk assessment, which has benefits not only for…
The Greater Paris Region and MASA Group have been working alongside to test contingency plans with the artificial intelligent simulation platform MASA SYNERGY. As a result these contingency plans were updated. In a second stage, senior crisis staff, emergency services personnel and the private sector were trained to deal with the impact of this continge…
This paper provides an overview on current trends and research findings for technologies within crisis communication and disaster risk reduction. The outcomes of the analysis highlight five different issues that are important for effective and efficient crisis communication and future directions of disaster risk reduction activities.…
This paper introduces a technology platform for the global network on climate change adaptation (CCA) and disaster risk reduction (DRR). The platform defines a foundation that provides various products or services and its objective is to allow business customers and suppliers to share DRR technology.
Advantages of this framework are as…
This input paper recognises that reducing disaster risks and impact is a shared responsibility across different stakeholders from different sectors. That shared responsibility can be strengthened through a knowledge-sharing platform with strong partnership. The Academic Network for Disaster Resilience to Optimise educatIonal Development (ANDROID) i…
This report gives a brief overview of the tsunami hazard component of the 2015 Global Assessment Report, involving a global hazard analysis. The work presented is the first global scale probabilistic assessment of tsunami hazard. The publication details the applied methodology and input parameters.
The results of this assessment are tsunami inundation…
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Este documento presenta los lineamientos definidos por la Oficina de las Naciones Unidas para la Reducción del Riesgo de Desastres (UNISDR) para comunicar información sobre reducción de riesgos con base en las buenas prácticas identificadas en la región Caribe. Estos lineamientos buscan mejorar las comunicaciones sobre la reducción de riesg…
This document reports on the outcomes from a survey initiated by GRF Davos on behalf of the UNISDR Scientific and Technical Advisory Group (STAG) amongst Disaster Risk Reduction platforms and networks. The STAG’s current understanding is that the “platforms” have a scientific and technological basis revolving around risks and disasters, whereas the “net…
This report examines significant and specific gaps in long-running disaster impact data sets which skew our knowledge about global patterns and trends. The report identifies substantial variability in the same impact measurements – including the key metric of mortality – across global databases. With extreme heatwaves, wildfires, storms and flooding bec…
Collection of Technical Notes on Data and MethodologyOn 2 February 2017, in adopting Resolution A/RES/71/276, the United Nations General Assembly endorsed the Report of the Open-ended Intergovernmental Expert Working Group on Indicators and Terminology Related to Disaster Risk Reduction (A/71/644), and the recommendations for indicators and termino…
Mobilizing, collecting and sharing information in crisis or risk situations, final report:
This document reports on a project aimed at studying the dissemination, collection and use of health information in risk and crisis situations. The research was carried out in Geneva, Madagascar and Cameroon by a team of researchers from Geneva University and La…
Investing in resilience - accelerating the implementation of the Hyogo Framework for Action in the Americas:
A declaration in which the participants of the Regional platform for disaster risk reduction in the Americas acknowledge the work being developed in the region surrounding disaster risk reduction, as guided by the principles and priorities set o…