The Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction The Sendai Framework has been established ... the use of space-based information in all phases of the disaster management cycle- in all regions of the ...

The International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction 2024 focuses on the role of education in protecting and empowering children for a disaster-free future. Many disasters, often worsened by climate ...

Disaster risk reduction (DRR) is the practice of reducing the potential impacts of natural and human-made hazards on people, assets, and the environment. It involves identifying, assessing ...

UNESCO provides tools for integrating Disaster Risk Reduction into schools and provides training for teachers and educators on how to educate children and youth to prepare for disasters.

In some landscapes, flooding can be a natural part of a yearly cycle, providing ecosystem services—the ... the coming years are a critical time to get disaster risk reduction right. Communities must ...

A study by researchers at the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT Bombay) has analysed the financial burden of floods ...

India experiences five to six tropical cyclones every year, with two or three being severe. A study by the Indian Institute ...

Without these additional financial means, people can be stuck in a poverty cycle with extreme weather events ... to help promising approaches get to scale; 3. Risk management (including disaster risk ...

IF there’s one thing we Filipinos have learned in the past month, it’s that natural calamities have become more destructive, ...

The Department of Risk and Disaster Reduction (RDR) is an exciting cross-UCL department, which leads research, knowledge, education and humanitarian action. By providing a focus for UCL activities, ...

The objective of the Tamil Nadu and Puducherry Coastal Disaster Risk Reduction Project for India is increasing ... but as populations and demands on forest resources have grown, the cycle of fire has ...