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
22 Oct 2013
In 2012, fewer people were reported to have died or been affected as a result of disasters than any other year during the previous decade, according to figures presented in this report. While these numbers are positive news, they also reflect the abs...
Tags: Report, Mapping and Geospatial Data, Mobile Technology
04 Nov 2020
The World Cities Report 2020 convincingly affirms that well-planned, managed, and financed cities and towns create economic, social, environmental and other unquantifiable value that can vastly improve the quality of life of all. Urbanization can be ...
Tags: Report, Climate Change Adaptation, Resilience and Disaster Risk Management, Urban Preparedness