Category: climate change
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Understanding Risk Finance Pacific Forum – Vanuatu
The Understanding Risk Finance Pacific Forum was recently held in Vanuatu, with policymakers, financial risk managers and development partners from the region and around the globe converging upon Port Vila to strengthen regional collaboration in the Pacific. Co-organised by the Government of Vanuatu’s Ministry of Finance and Economic Management (MFEM) and the World Bank’s Disaster…
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Disaster Risk Reduction & Open Data Newsletter – August 2018 Edition
DRR and data in the news Scientific collections and databases review by MBIE, New Zealand LINZ report on 15 August will improve datasets for resilience in New Zealand IBM with humanitarian organisations as partners launched Call for Code Global Initiative to support disaster recovery KDDI, OYO and Toyota using IoT to gather data for disaster…
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White Paper: Next generation disaster data infrastructure CODATA LODGD Task Group 2017
Call for Authors This call for authors seeks contributions from academics and scientists who are in the fields of disaster management, data science, information management, or computer science and engineering. Schedule and contact information Volunteer recruitment deadline: 2017/7/31 Writing team task assignment: 2017/8/7 Submission deadline of each section and subsection: 2017/12/31 The first draft of…
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Conferencia Magistral: “Cambio Climático, Resiliencia, Manejo y Evaluación de Riesgos.”
Conferencia Magistral: “Cambio Climático, Resiliencia, Manejo y Evaluación de Riesgos.” Ecología Cozumel·Saturday, May 20, 2017 El auditorio de la Universidad de Quintana Roo (UQROO), campus Cozumel, fue la sede oficial de la Conferencia Magistral: “Cambio Climático, Resiliencia, Manejo y Evaluación de Riesgos”, impartida por el Dr. Bapon Fakhruddin, experto internacional en la reducción y modelaje…
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Training on climate risk and emergency management system for Ministry of Rural Development, Cambodia
A four days training provided to the participants from different Ministry in Cambodia on climate risk and emergency management system from 19 April 2017. The training is intended as an introduction to climate risk and emergency management system. It aims to build human and institutional capacities to manage risks associated with climate variability, change, and…
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National Integration Coastal Zone Management Framework (NICZF) of Vanuatu
The NICZF was approved in 2010 to guide management of coastal and marine areas, with a vision of providing a sustainable approach to coastal management through establishing institutional arrangements and involving relevant stakeholders in implementation of management activities. The responsibilities for overseeing the NICZF are shared between the Departments of Environment, Fisheries, Forestry, Agriculture, Lands,…
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Ridge to Reef – An integrated Approach for Coast, Water and Livelihood
Human pressure has changed the physical and ecological characteristics of coastal zones for centuries. For nearly 40 years, there have been concerted efforts to improve management of the diverse human pressures that have led to deterioration of coastal environments. Since 1992, Integrated Coastal Zone Management (ICZM) has been a dominant policy paradigm for bringing together…
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Critical Infrastructure (Sea Port) Loss Modelling
The maritime transportation network is one of the critical infrastructure systems whose disruption significantly impacts the economy, security, and overall well-being of society. Lessons learned from geo-hazards like earthquakes, tsunami, liquefaction, storms and severe climate events and other natural disasters due to climate change have dramatically demonstrated the vulnerability of seaport structures and the severe…
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Climate Resilience Road Infrastructures
Natural hazards can cause serious disruption to societies and their transport infrastructure networks. The impact of extreme hazard events is largely dependent on the resilience of societies and their networks. Resilience of critical transport infrastructure to extreme weather events, such as flood, heavy rainfall or drought, is one of the most demanding challenges for both…
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Integrated Urban Drainage System- Lessons Learned
Over the last decades, climate change and the constant growth of cities and urban areas have had a considerable impact on urban drainage system. With fast increase in population and infrastructures, the infiltration capability of rainwater reduced subsequently making the urban areas more vulnerable to urban flood in the presence of heavy rain events. Climate…
Bapon (SHM) Fakhruddin, PhD 