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Alice Hill, who directed resilience policy for the National Security Council in the Obama administration, said the wider debate over cutting climate - warming emissions may have distracted people from promptly pursuing ways to reduce risks and economic and societal costs from natural disasters.
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With growing risks to the nation's electrical grid from natural disasters and as a potential target for malicious attacks, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) should work closely with utility operators and other stakeholders to improve cyber and physical security and resilience, says a new congressionally mandated report by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.
His main research interests are in the development and application of probabilistic concepts and methods to civil and marine engineering, including: structural reliability; life - cycle cost analysis; probability - based assessment, design, and multi-criteria life - cycle optimization of structures and infrastructure systems; structural health monitoring; life - cycle performance maintenance and management of structures and distributed infrastructure under extreme events (earthquakes, tsunamis, hurricanes, and floods); risk - based assessment and decision making; multi-hazard risk mitigation; infrastructure sustainability and resilience to disasters; climate change adaptation; and probabilistic mechanics.
Needed: a strategy to promote resilience Compiling a list of suggestions, they push federal agencies to «make resilience a core aspect of all federal infrastructure and disaster - recovery funding» to strengthen affordable housing; ask for federal leaders to expand funding for programs, such as the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program, so at - risk municipalities can develop disaster plans and assess their vulnerabilities; and boost economic stability by opposing cuts to the Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program, or SNAP, so families can afford to eat after a disaster.
Whilst this project will not seek to attribute the impacts of such events, it will seek to understand the existing vulnerability and exposure of these countries to such impacts to further strengthen the evidence base to inform disaster risk management and resilience efforts.
We welcome the mobilization of relevant institutions, networks and initiatives, to provide a synthesis of the current situation and proposals for actionable research, to assess and monitor disaster risks, to engage in communication efforts of such risk, to develop overall capacity in dealing with risk and to provide science advice to both policy makers and elected officials in order to develop resilience.
b by 2020, increase by x % the number of cities and human settlements adopting and implementing integrated policies and plans towards inclusion, resource efficiency, mitigation and adaptation to climate change, resilience to disasters, develop and implement in line with the forthcoming Hyogo Framework holistic disaster risk management at all levels
But it stresses that increasing resilience to disasters can help limit climate risks, as well, even as it reduces poverty and potentially boosts global security.
Some disaster planners and analysts have shifted that simple disaster formula above to add another factor that can reduce risk and impact — resilience.
Insurance programs, social protection measures, and disaster risk management may enhance long - term livelihood resilience among poor and marginalized people, if policies address poverty and multidimensional inequalities.
Posted in Advocacy, Biodiversity, Capacity Development, Carbon, Climatic Changes in Himalayas, Development and Climate Change, Disasters and Climate Change, Global Warming, Green House Gas Emissions, Health and Climate Change, Information and Communication, International Agencies, Lessons, News, Population, Research, Resilience, UNFCCC, Vulnerability Comments Off on Maximizing Synergies: Climate Change Adaptation And Disaster Risk Reduction
In line with the TNA workshop, a Proposal Development Training Workshop (PDTW) with the theme «Disaster Risk Management and Community Resilience in Southeast Asia,» scheduled from 28 February to 2 March 2018, targets to capacitate more than 20 selected young scientists and practitioners from the Southeast Asia region on developing collaborative research proposals and networking.
Haiti is one of six Caribbean island nations participating in a regional PPCR program to enhance climate data and sharing for improved resilience and disaster risk management.
At the end of the workshop, it is expected that the participants will become knowledgeable on proposal development and familiarized with topics of priority in Southeast Asia, which include disaster risk reduction and management, climate change adaptation and mitigation, and building resilience to climate change impacts.
The objectives of the campaign are to increase understanding and encourage commitment by local and national governments to make disaster risk reduction and resilience and climate change a policy priority and to bring the global Hyogo Framework closer to local needs.
Toward Resilience: A Guide to Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) and Climate Change Adaptation (CCA) is an introductory resource for staff of development and humanitarian organizations working with people whose live and rights are threatened by disasters and climate change.
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The report includes topics such as building resilience and reducing vulnerabilities, the regional trend towards climate change adaptation, a regional framework for disaster management; and regional initiatives in advancing disaster risk management and climate change adaptation in fisheries and aquaculture.
This analytical report provides a snapshot of resilience building activities at the local level and identifies trends in the perceptions and approaches of local governments toward disaster risk reduction.
It briefly presents the Mayor's Task Force on Climate Change, Disaster Risk and the Urban Poor, launched in 2009 with the aim to better understand these issues, and provides recommended actions to build resilience of the urban poor.
f Support the integration of an increased focus on resilience in the context of climate impacts, market shocks, food price hikes and increasingly frequent and / or intense weather - related disasters; increased action on disaster risk reduction and the inclusion of food security, rights and justice;
The workshop brought together policy makers, practitioners and researchers from the fields of social protection, climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction and had two core objectives: to understand better how social protection can be used to strengthen the poor's resilience to climate and natural disaster risk in developing countries; to create a forum for cross-regional learning about good practice for realizing the potential synergies between social protection, disaster risk reduction, and climate change adaptation.
By Ronaldo Golez 2018-04-24T09:41:07 +00:00 April 24th 2018 Categories: CLIMATE CHANGE & RESILIENCE, URBAN AGRICULTURE Tags: adaptation, Asia, climate change, climate change adaptation, disaster risk reduction, Flooding, Philippines, RESILIENCE, URBAN AGRICULTURE Tags: adaptation, Asia, climate change, climate change adaptation, disaster risk reduction, Flooding, Philippines, resilienceresilience
On climate adaptation, the IMF is assisting small states and other countries enhance macroeconomic disaster risk management frameworks, determine the appropriate combination of building buffers and risk transfer through insurance or financial market instruments, and tailor investment and growth policies to building resilience.
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Senator Legarda was recognized this week in Paris as a Global Champion for Resilience by the Special Representative of the UN Secretary General for Disaster Risk Reduction.
Posted in Adaptation, Advocacy, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Biodiversity, Capacity Development, Climatic Changes in Himalayas, Development and Climate Change, Disasters and Climate Change, Energy, Environment, Events, Flood, Food, Forest, Glaciers, Government Policies, India, Information and Communication, Lessons, Nepal, News, Resilience, Upcoming Events, Vulnerability, Water Comments Off on Himalayan Nations: Need to build Resilience to Climate Change Impact Tags: Agriculture, Asia - Pacific, Climate change, Disaster Risk Reduction, Glacier, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Pakistan, Sustainable development
Moench, M., Fajber, E., Dixit, A., Caspari, E., and Pokhrel, A. (2008), «Catalyzing Climate and Disaster Resilience: Processes for Identifying Tangible and Economically Robust Strategies», Eds., Final Report of the Risk to Resilience Study, The Risk to Resilience Study Team, pp 328
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Whilst this project will not seek to attribute the impacts of such events, it will seek to understand the existing vulnerability and exposure of these countries to such impacts to further strengthen the evidence base to inform disaster risk management and resilience efforts.
Insurance programs, social protection measures, and disaster risk management may enhance long - term livelihood resilience among poor and marginalized people, if policies address poverty and multidimensional inequalities [Center for Global Development, 4/1/14]
It is imperative the science is clearly presented to inform the media and enable them to fulfil their role as information brokers, and to support decision - making by communities, planners, and policy - makers, especially during the window of opportunity in the aftermath of disaster when important decisions are beingtaken on rebuilding efforts including around climate resilience and risk reductions measures.
By Dan Lewis 2017-10-25T21:57:58 +00:00 May 10th 2017 Categories: CLIMATE CHANGE & RESILIENCE, DISASTER RISK REDUCTION, GREEN & SMART DEVELOPMENT Tags: disaster risk reduction, resilience, UN Habitat, Urban ResilienceRESILIENCE, DISASTER RISK REDUCTION, GREEN & SMART DEVELOPMENT Tags: disaster risk reduction, resilience, UN Habitat, Urban ResilienceRESILIENCE, DISASTER RISK REDUCTION, GREEN & SMART DEVELOPMENT Tags: disaster risk reduction, resilience, UN Habitat, Urban Resilience PDISASTER RISK REDUCTION, GREEN & SMART DEVELOPMENT Tags: disaster risk reduction, resilience, UN Habitat, Urban Resilience ProgrRISK REDUCTION, GREEN & SMART DEVELOPMENT Tags: disaster risk reduction, resilience, UN Habitat, Urban Resilience Pdisaster risk reduction, resilience, UN Habitat, Urban Resilience Progrrisk reduction, resilience, UN Habitat, Urban Resilienceresilience, UN Habitat, Urban Resilienceresilience, UN Habitat, Urban ResilienceResilienceResilience Programme
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Posted in Climatic Changes in Himalayas, Development and Climate Change, Disaster and Emergency, Disasters and Climate Change, Ecosystem Functions, Environment, Flood, Governance, Information and Communication, International Agencies, Land, Lessons, News, Publication, Research, Resilience, River, Vulnerability, Water, Weather Comments Off on Case Studies On Flash Flood Risk Management In The Himalayas Tags: Asia, Climate change, Disaster Risk Reduction, Ganges, Himalaya, Sustainable development
Posted in Adaptation, Advocacy, Books, Development and Climate Change, Disaster and Emergency, Disasters and Climate Change, Environment, Global Warming, Government Policies, Green House Gas Emissions, International Agencies, Publication, Resilience, Vulnerability, Weather Comments Off on The GLOBE Climate Legislation Study Tags: Adaptation to global warming, Climate change, Disaster Risk Reduction, Environment, Himalaya
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By Joseph Severe & Jean Frantz Jure & Nicolas Jean 2017-11-16T14:29:34 +00:00 November 16th 2017 Categories: CLIMATE CHANGE & RESILIENCE, DISASTER RISK REDUCTION, GREEN & SMART DEVELOPMENT Tags: climate change, climate change mitigation, cyclones, disaster risk reduction, Haiti, hurricane Irma, huDISASTER RISK REDUCTION, GREEN & SMART DEVELOPMENT Tags: climate change, climate change mitigation, cyclones, disaster risk reduction, Haiti, hurricane Irma, hurricRISK REDUCTION, GREEN & SMART DEVELOPMENT Tags: climate change, climate change mitigation, cyclones, disaster risk reduction, Haiti, hurricane Irma, hudisaster risk reduction, Haiti, hurricane Irma, hurricrisk reduction, Haiti, hurricane Irma, hurricanes
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What sensible, pragmatic, bipartisan steps can we take to increase our resilience to risks that a disaster like Hurricane Harvey represents?
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This analytical report covers the key activities relative to the Priority 3 of the Hyogo Framework for Action 2005 - 2015, «Building the Resilience of Nations and Communities to Disasters», broadly: knowledge management; education; and risk awareness.
This guidance report provides evidence for three types of benefits — or dividends of resilience — that disaster risk management (DRM) investments can yield: (i) Avoiding losses when disasters strike; (ii) Stimulating economic activity thanks to reduced disaster risk; and (iii) Development co-benefits, or uses, of a specific DRM investment.
By KfW Development Bank 2017-10-25T22:00:59 +00:00 December 9th 2016 Categories: CLIMATE CHANGE & RESILIENCE, DISASTER RISK REDUCTION, GREEN & SMART DEVELOPMENT Tags: Africa, Beira, climate change mitigation, disaster risk reduction, flood management, KfW, Mozambique, resilience, river rehaRESILIENCE, DISASTER RISK REDUCTION, GREEN & SMART DEVELOPMENT Tags: Africa, Beira, climate change mitigation, disaster risk reduction, flood management, KfW, Mozambique, resilience, river rehabiDISASTER RISK REDUCTION, GREEN & SMART DEVELOPMENT Tags: Africa, Beira, climate change mitigation, disaster risk reduction, flood management, KfW, Mozambique, resilience, river rehabilitaRISK REDUCTION, GREEN & SMART DEVELOPMENT Tags: Africa, Beira, climate change mitigation, disaster risk reduction, flood management, KfW, Mozambique, resilience, river rehabidisaster risk reduction, flood management, KfW, Mozambique, resilience, river rehabilitarisk reduction, flood management, KfW, Mozambique, resilience, river reharesilience, river rehabilitation
This policy document outlines seven clear targets and four priorities for action in the Sendai Framework to prevent new and reduce existing disaster risks: (i) Understanding disaster risk; (ii) Strengthening disaster risk governance to manage disaster risk; (iii) Investing in disaster reduction for resilience and; (iv) Enhancing disaster preparedness for effective response, and to «Build Back Better» in recovery, rehabilitation and reconstruction.
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Weighing the costs of disaster: Consequences, risks, and resilience in individuals, families and communities