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A national report card on protecting children during disasters

AUTORE: Save the Children U.S.

This document grades the US 50 states on four criteria of preparedness in case the community encounters a disaster such as floods, earthquakes, wildfires and terror attacks: (i) a plan for evacuating kids in child care; (ii) reunifying families after a disaster; (iii) children with special needs; and (iv) an evacuation plan for schools.

Countries top 'natural' disaster ranking – France, Italy, USA at 'high risk'

Bangladesh, Indonesia and Iran have been rated as the nations most at risk from extreme weather and geophysical events according to a new study ranking 229 countries on their vulnerability to natural disasters.

Jason McGeown

The Natural Disasters Risk Index (NDRI), released by global risks advisory firm Maplecroft, has been developed to enable businesses and insurance companies to identify risks to international assets. It is calculated by measuring the human impact of natural disasters, in terms of deaths per annum and per million of population, plus the frequency of events over the last 30 years. The methodology has been refined to reflect the likelihood of an event occurring and covers disasters including earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, tsunamis, storms, flooding, drought, landslides, extreme temperatures and epidemics.

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Connect and convince to save lives and reduce disaster impacts

United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction Secretariat (UNISDR)

This brochure introduces the International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (ISDR) as a strategic framework adopted by the United Nations Member States in 2000 intending to guide and coordinate the efforts of a wide range of partners to achieve a substantive reduction in disaster losses. Its aim is to build resilient nations and communities as an essential condition for sustainable development.

Risk management of natural hazards in Switzerland

Federal Office for the Environment (FOEN), DETEC; Swiss National Platform for Natural Hazards (PLANAT), FOEN

Loat, Roberto

This document presents the current basic principles of the risk management of natural hazards in Switzerland. It acknowledges the considerable efforts made in the past few years on the road from conventional hazard protection to an integrated risk management by the federal government, the cantons and the municipalities, and describes an approach based on a balanced equilibrium of preparedness, response and recovery measures. It also defines the concept of residual risk, which considers social, economical and ecological criteria of well-being, and which ultimately leads to a sustainable risk management

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Reconstructing Haiti

Oxfam International

This briefing note advocates for a sustained international reconstruction effort which will effectively translate into a new start for Haiti, and which would meet the country’s long-term development needs. It particularly calls to integrate disaster risk reduction in all reconstruction projects, meeting high standards for reconstruction, and investing in disaster preparedness capacities of the government and local organisations.

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Canadians at risk: our exposure to natural hazards

Edito da: Institute for Catastrophic Loss Reduction (ICLR) - Anno di pubblicazione: 2010 - ISBN:9780978484156

Author(s): Dotto, Lydia; Duchesne, Luc; Etkin, David; Jaffit, Elianna; Joe, Paul; Jones, Brenda; Koshida, Grace; Leblon, Brigitte; Opoku-Boateng, Ernest; Schenk, Kevin; Stefanovic, Ingrid; Stocks, Brian

This document aims to inform people about the risks they face, some of the ways to adapt to them and actions that can be taken to reduce vulnerability to them. It is intended for Canadians—political leaders and bureaucrats, business leaders and the public—to better understand the nature of the risks they face and to prepare for disasters.

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COMPORTAMENTI SICURI DOPO UN EVENTO SISMICO

L’Aquila, 17 settembre 2009: seminario di incontro, discussione ed esperienze

fonte: Gianpaolo Caputo

Il 17 settembre 2009 si è svolto a Villa S. Angelo (L’Aquila) un convegno organizzato da AIFOS e Protezione Civile avente come oggetto “I comportamenti sicuri dopo un evento sismico”. Argomenti principali sono stati oltre all’importanza della prevenzione quale mezzo di tutela della integrità fisica dell’uomo in ambito lavorativo anche, visti gli accadimenti drammatici avvenuti recentemente come il terremoto de L’Aquila e l’incidente ferroviario di Viareggio, l’importanza della prevenzione e della sicurezza negli ambienti di vita.

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CITIES AND RESILIENCE

Summary report and policy brief

This climate policy brief uses the Copenhagen Agreement as an opportunity to significantly advance the climate change agenda and to establish a solid enabling environment for climate change adaptation. It asserts that combining local knowledge and global support to tackle climate change issues would enable cities to be in a position to lead successful adaptation and sustain those gains through proactive ‘climate-proof’ development policy and planning. It highlights critical issues raised in the Cities and Resilience Dialogue held in Bangkok, Thailand September 28-29, 2009, which reviewed the progress of cities in addressing the consequences of climate change with city representatives from India, Indonesia, the Philippines, Thailand, and Vietnam; their respective national climate change negotiators; and key supporting institutions active in the region.

Good practices and tools on disaster risk reduction in education in Central Asia: compendium

European Commission (EC); United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF); United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction Secretariat - Central Asia (UNISDR - CA)

This document addresses the issues of disaster risk reduction (DRR) in the area of education in the form of a compendium of various educational activities and initiatives, both in the formal and informal spheres of education, being implemented at regional level in the Central Asian countries. The compendium gathers materials on good practices, methodologies and tools on DRR in education, examples of which may be replicated in other parts of the Central Asian region in the future.

Riflessioni sul terremoto a Haiti del 12 gennaio 2010

David Alexander

Al momento di scrivere queste parole, ancora una volta un grande disastro sismico è appena successo in un paese afflitto da povertà e destituzione. Haiti è una nazione di 10 milioni di abitanti, la più povera nell'emisfero occidentale. Essa gode il rango di 149 su 182 paesi elencati nell'indice di sviluppo umano (human development index) dell'UNDP, di un reddito pro capite di $610, di una durata media della vita di 61 anni e di un'analfabetismo tra adulti del 38%. Le statistiche, comunque, sono troppo aride da poter spiegare le sofferenze inerenti in questa situazione. Inoltre, Haiti è soggetta a frequenti alluvioni e talvolta a uragani, come Jeanne del 2004. Non aveva avuto un grande terremoto quasi dalla sua fondazione, ovvero dal 1770, ma così si trova nei 'gap' sismici dei margini delle zolle tettoniche, le zone dove la deformazione della crosta terrestre aumenta al punto di una gigantesca e brusca rottura.

Reflections on the Haiti earthquake of 12 January 2010

David Alexander

As I write, a major earthquake has once again caused devastation in yet another country afflicted by poverty and destitution. Haiti is a country of ten million inhabitants, the poorest in the western hemisphere, ranked 149 out of 182 in UNDP's Human Development Index, with a per capita GDP of $610, a life expectancy at birth of 61 years and an adult literacy rate of 62 per cent. The statistics are too arid to say much about the suffering. Moreover, Haiti has frequent floods and occasional hurricanes, such as Jeanne in 2004. It had no major earthquake between 1770 and 2010, but that is typical of seismic 'gaps' at the tectonic plate margins, areas where strain builds up to the point of a mighty rupture.

Early warning, early action!!!

An evaluation of IFRC West and Central Africa zone flood preparedness and response

This report examines how the West/Central Africa Zone (WCAZ) used climate information in 2008, as well as the decisions for action, which were made based on seasonal forecasts. Interviews were conducted with a number of WCAZ staff, as well as the Disaster Managers and Coordinators in the National Societies (NS) of the Gambia, Ghana, Togo and Senegal. In addition, the report identifies what the Zone did well, opportunities for improvement, and the concrete benefits from the WCAZ’s first-time implementation of early warnings into early action (EW>EA). A framework is also proposed for future quantitative monitoring and evaluation of the value of climate information and EW>EA in improving disaster management. In the future, data collected in the areas of flood severity, the extent of EW>EA implementation, timeliness of RC response, and resource requirements would enable more quantitative impacts of EW>EA to be monitored.

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Information and communications technology for disaster risk reduction

Aimed at policy- and decision-makers from developing countries working on disaster risk reduction in the Asia and the Pacific region, this policy brief discusses Information and communication technologies (ICT) infrastructure and applications for disaster risk reduction.
The main functions supported by the tools presented in the present policy brief include the following: (i) information collection and sharing; (ii) decision support systems, through the integration of geo-spatial data; (iii) communication and dissemination; and (iv) emergency preparedness and response.

Children and disaster risk reduction

Taking stock and moving forward

Back, Emma; Cameron, Catherine; Tanner, Thomas

This report reviews child-focused and child-led disaster risk reduction approaches and techniques. It documents a number of case studies across a range of interventions, dividing these into three main areas: Knowledge, Voice and Action. It makes some observations regarding current practice and recommendations that imply a shift in emphasis going forward.

testo completo: http://www.preventionweb.net/files/12085_ChildLedDRRTakingStock1.pdf

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Guide to developing national action plans

A tool for mainstreaming disaster risk management based on experience from selected Pacific Island countries

Il testo, curato dagli autori Sikivou e Mosese è stato edito nel mese di ottobre 2009 dal  Pacific Islands Applied Geoscience Commission (SOPAC)

This document is a guide to assist Pacific Island Countries (PICs) to prepare disaster risk management (DRM) National Action Plans (NAP). The NAP development process is supported by the Pacific Disaster Risk Management Partnership Network (PPN) and is considered a key instrument in facilitating DRM mainstreaming.