19 Sep 2024
Authors: Deolfa Josè Moisès, and Yong Sebastian Nyam, University of the Free State, South Africa. Flood hazards are complex events with severe consequences, particularly for rural riparian communities that depend on natural resources for their live...
Tags: Research, Communication As Aid, Early Warning Systems, Flood
26 Nov 2017
The 2018 Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) Implementation Workshop was held 31 October – 1 November, in Hong Kong, China. The host of this Workshop was Hong Kong Observatory (HKO). CAP Implementation Workshops focus on emergency alerting as enabled by...
Tags: Report, Early Warning Systems
02 Feb 2016
The strategic directions on strengthening National Platforms for Disaster Risk Reduction are intended for use by all stakeholders as a guiding document or manual, which proposes a list of rational options of organizational and practical actions that ...
Tags: Report, Disaster Risk Financing, Risk Assessment, Urban Preparedness