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Typhoons in the Philippines: A journey to disaster resilience

15:2:39, 26/02/2016

New recommeneded practice on drought monitoring published
15:0:53, 26/02/2016
Disaster lessons from the hottest year on record
11:11:33, 22/02/2016
Disasters don’t recognise borders or calendar years. Nonetheless one would expect to learn something of value to disaster risk reduction from newly available data on disasters in 2015 which was the hottest year on record since pre-industrial times.
Building back better with Sendai
11:8:17, 22/02/2016
KOBE, February 3, 2015 - The ten-year old International Recovery Platform is getting a new lease of life thanks to the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction.
ASEAN moves to strengthen disaster cooperation
11:3:14, 22/02/2016
SIEM REAP, Cambodia, 1 February 2016 – Greater disaster resilience at community and national level is an important element of a new era of closer integration and cooperation in Southeast Asia, a high-level ASEAN-China cooperation forum was told today.
Early warnings must make sense
10:55:59, 22/02/2016
GENEVA, 28 January 2015 – Early warning systems are doomed to fail if they don’t make sense to the very people that they are meant to help, delegates heard today at an international conference on harnessing science and technology to implement the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction.
How can science play a bigger part in reducing disaster risk?
9:37:30, 22/02/2016
When the Viceroy of Peru, Jose Antonio Mansa de Velasco, was given orders to rebuild Lima after an earthquake in October 1746, he hired the French mathematician, Louis Godin, to come up with a reconstruction plan.
Aichi Prefecture city rolls out new pay phones in disaster-prevention move
9:29:5, 13/01/2016
The city of Tahara in Aichi Prefecture is bringing back public pay phones in response to widespread mobile phone disruptions following the 2011 earthquake and tsunami.
Detecting forest fires with satellites (MODIS and VIIRS)
9:21:35, 13/01/2016
Latin America in a better position to deal with El Niño
0:0:0, 13/01/2010
Appliance of science key to disaster risk reduction
9:15:6, 13/01/2016
GENEVA, 30 December 2015 – Hundreds of science and technology specialists from around the globe will come together next month to harness their expertise to help reduce disaster risk.