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Silo-Breakers: Asia and the Pacific calls for integrating climate adaptation and disaster risk reduction

UNDRR Climate change Disaster risk reduction

2023-04-04

The Asia-Pacific Climate Week was the last of the regional precursors to the global UN Climate Action Summit, to be convened by ...
From drones to social media, big data helps mitigate impact of complex disasters in Asia

big data Asia

2023-04-04

Rising global temperatures have increased the frequency and intensity of floods, cyclones and droughts in the region, making it ha...
New urban resilience programme for Central Asia

Central Asia urban

2023-04-04

The Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Disaster Risk Reduction, Mami Mizutori, made the announcement today at a R...
A IRDR working paper published by DRR Knowledge Service hits 3,300 downloads

DRR Knowledge Service IRDR

2023-04-04

The working paper written by Disaster Risk Reduction Knowledge Service System of IKCEST, with the title of “Extraction and Analysi...
Jamaica ready to host 2020 Regional Platform

Jamaica Regional Platform

2023-04-04

The 7th Regional Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction will be the first in the series to be staged in the Caribbean and takes plac...
NASA program aids with disaster relief efforts

aids disaster relief

2023-04-04

“The goal of the NASA Earth Science Disasters Program is to try to prevent natural disasters or limit their impact and also help p...
Meteosat Third Generation: The eyes on a storm

Meteosat emergency responses storm warnings Climate change

2023-04-04

Abstract Meteosat Third Generation geostationary satellites will provide observations that can speed storm warnings, drive fire de...
The oxidation of volcanoes — a magma opus

volcanoes magma opus

2023-04-04

Abstract A huge cloud of volcanic ash and gas rises above Mount Pinatubo, Philippines, on June 12, 1991. Three days later, the vo...
Big Data Plays A Major Role In Disaster Management

natural disasters big data

2023-04-04

Abstract As the technology is getting smarter day by day scientist and officers are analysing once untapped information. Big data...
AI-Based Alert System to Predict Disasters Before They Occur

adaptive artificial intelligence disaster prediction and prevention vehicle collisions wildfires Harrisburg University

2023-04-04

Abstract A group of Harrisburg University (HU) professors and students aims to design a smart disaster prediction and prevention...

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