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Global Survey of Early Warning Systems

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With a view to establish a “worldwide early warning system for all natural hazards building on existing national and regional capacity”, United Nations Secretary-General Mr. Kofi Annan requested in March 2005 that a global survey of capacities and gaps for early warning systems be undertaken.The present report synthesizes the findings of this survey, which was carried out by the ISDR secretariat in collaboration with a multi-party working group established at the 11th session of the more...

Added by Zunia to Disaster Prevention & Response on September 02, 2009

Do Conflicts Create Poverty Traps?

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Determining assets as key indicators of household welfare, the authors of this paper seek to analyze how asset losses occur during internal conflicts and the process of asset accumulation following conflict. To conduct such research they focused on an especially vulnerable group of victims of conflict - the displaced population in Colombia. Full document in PDF format; Number of pages: 58p

Added by Zunia to Disaster Prevention & Response on June 09, 2009

Disaster Risk Increasing, Exacerbated by Climate Change

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The risk of disasters occurring worldwide is increasing due to the expansion of slums, the increasing vulnerability of rural livelihoods to weather changes and deteriorating ecosystems, a new UN report says. “Exacerbating this deadly trio is the established and omnipresent threat of climate change, impelled by greenhouse gas emissions generated by affluent societies and individuals, with the resulting burdens falling on developing countries and their poorest citizens,” said the first UN Global more...

Added by Zunia to Disaster Prevention & Response on May 31, 2009

Coastal Populations at Risk as Climate Changes

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Several large African cities are at risk from rising sea levels and intense storms, experts warn. Poor neighborhoods and slums in Bugama and Okrika in Nigeria, Freetown in Sierra Leone, Bathurst in the Gambia and Tanga in Tanzania, are especially vulnerable. In such low-income urban centres, infrastructure is often non-existent or ill-maintained, according to a World Bank report, Sea level Rise and Storm Surges, while storm-water drainage infrastructure is often outdated and inadequate. more...

Added by Zunia to Disaster Prevention & Response on May 31, 2009

Total disaster risk management: good practices 2008

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This user-friendly handbook provides an overview of several 'natural' disasters that occurred in the world in 2007, and contains good practices submitted by ADRC member countries to share knowledge among relevant stakeholders in order to contribute to global disaster risk reduction, in regard to the progression on the implementation of the Hyogo Framework for Action (2005-2015). Full document in PDF format (1.03MB); Number of pages: 40p

Added by Zunia to Disaster Prevention & Response on May 10, 2009

Practical Guide: Applying Sustainable Development to Arms-Transfer Decisions

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Every day, governments around the world give authorization for the export and transfer of weapons. These decisions affect the lives of millions of people. In some cases, these arms transfers undermine development, by fuelling conflict and armed violence, threatening peace-building efforts, or when they involve excessive unaccountable spending. Such spending can divert vital funds from public services such as education and health care, and when such spending takes place without accountability more...

Added by Zunia to Disaster Prevention & Response on April 27, 2009

The Tsunami Legacy: Innovation, Breakthroughs and Change

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'It has been over four years since the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami. Spanning continents, cultures and time zones, the deaths and destruction were, “so brutal, so quick, so extensive that we are still struggling to fully comprehend it,” as then-United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan said. This report takes a unique, country-based perspective, and shares what have been learnt, and looks ahead in terms of what still needs to be done. To help in illustrating lessons from the long road to more...

Added by Zunia to Disaster Prevention & Response on April 27, 2009

The Right to Survive: The humanitarian challenge in the twenty-first century

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Almost 250 million people around the world are affected by climate-related disasters in a typical year. This report projects that, by 2015, this number could grow by 50 per cent to an average of more than 375 million people. The predicted scale of humanitarian need by 2015 could completely overwhelm current capacity to respond to emergencies – unless the world acknowledges and responds to the growing threat. This report shows that the humanitarian challenge of the twenty-first century more...

Added by Zunia to Disaster Prevention & Response on April 26, 2009

Forecasting numbers of people affected annually by natural disasters up to 2015

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Using data from the Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED) in the University of Louvain, the analysis in this paper identifies an underlying upward trend in the numbers of people affected by climate-related disasters since 1980, and makes a projection of the numbers that are likely to be affected by 2015. For the purpose of this analysis, six types of natural disaster types, as defined by CRED, are categorized as climate-related: droughts, extreme temperatures, wildfires, more...

Added by Zunia to Disaster Prevention & Response on April 26, 2009

For a Safer Tomorrow: Protecting civilians in a multipolar world

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Since the end of the Cold War, the number of armed conflicts in the world has fallen. But is this trend now about to be reversed? Climate change, poverty and inequality, and the wider availability of weapons all add to the risk of conflicts increasing. In 1949, the Geneva Conventions enshrined people’s rights to be protected from atrocities in conflict. Yet civilians are still killed, raped, and forced to flee their homes, 60 years on. In 2005, almost every government in the world agreed its more...

Added by Zunia to Disaster Prevention & Response on April 26, 2009

Sea-level rise and storm surges: a comparative analysis of impacts in developing countries

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An increase in sea surface temperature is evident at all latitudes and in all oceans. The current understanding is that ocean warming plays a major role in intensified cyclone activity and heightened storm surges. The vulnerability of coastlines to intensified storm surges can be ascertained by overlaying Geographic Information System information with data on land, population density, agriculture, urban extent, major cities, wetlands, and gross domestic product for inundation zones likely to more...

Added by Zunia to Disaster Prevention & Response on April 23, 2009

Disaster Standards Needed in Asia

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'In this Brookings Northeast Asia Commentary, Nonresident Senior Fellow Roberta Cohen calls for the development of performance standards for addressing natural disasters including the cyclone in Burma, earthquake in China, and famine in North Korea. Without such standards, states and the international community may be hampered in saving lives and reconstruction efforts.'

Added by Zunia to Disaster Prevention & Response on March 30, 2009

The humanitarian costs of climate change

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'There is little doubt that climate change will produce more frequent and severe weather patterns. As such those communities who are susceptible to weather-related phenomena – such as drought, floods, cyclones and extreme heat and extreme cold events – will face ever-greater threats of ‘natural disasters’. Indeed, with natural disasters affecting on average more than 250,000,000 people per year in the past decade and with climate change set to increase the incidence of such events will the more...

Added by Zunia to Disaster Prevention & Response on March 29, 2009

Energy security risks and risk mitigation: an overview

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This article talks about the issues of energy security risks and risk mitigation strategies among UNECE member States and discusses their causes and appropriate policy responses. Full article [PDF 79.01 KB] Number of pages: pp.77-83; Publication date: 2008 Source(s): United Nations Economic Commission For Europe (UNECE)

Added by Zunia to Disaster Prevention & Response on February 26, 2009

Learning about accountability from CARE Peru’s earthquake response

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'On the 15th August 2007 a magnitude 8.0 earthquake struck off the coast of Peru, killing more than 500 people and leaving more than 75,000 families homeless. Before the earthquake, CARE Peru had already identified CARE’s third programming principle “we seek ways to be held accountable to poor and marginalised people” as an organisational priority. The emergency response was an important moment for making accountability to disaster affected people a reality. As a means for ensuring a focus more...

Added by Zunia to Disaster Prevention & Response on February 23, 2009

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