09 Jan 2015
Water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) services are critical in the aftermath of emergencies such as natural disasters, disease outbreaks, and violence. In this E4C Webinar, Daniele Lantagne, Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering ...
Tags: Video, Water, Sanitation & Hygiene (WASH)
26 Nov 2014
From www.iris.edu/educate. In 1985, a Great magnitude 8.1 subduction-zone earthquake occurred beneath the coast of Michoacan Mexico. Despite the 350-km distance from the earthquake epicenter to Mexico City,most of the 9,500 fatalities occurred there...
Tags: Video, Early Warning Systems, Earthquake
27 Jun 2016
UNISDR’s mandate: UNISDR was established in 1999 as a dedicated secretariat to facilitate the implementation of the International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (UN agency for ISDR). UNISDR’s mandate has been defined by a number of United Nation...
Tags: Data set, Other type of resource, Resilience and Disaster Risk Management, Urban Risk Reduction
April 12, 2015