24 Dec 2013
The lives of hundreds of thousands of people in Asian cities have been transformed thanks to an innovative project that enables the urban poor to improve their living conditions in partnership with city governments. The successes of the Asian Coaliti...
Tags: Case Study, Urban Risk Reduction
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
25 Nov 2014
The Government of Guinea declared an Ebola outbreak on 21 March 2014. This is the first time the Ebola virus has surfaced in Guinea. People fell sick and started dying. With support from the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Soci...
Tags: Video, Communicable Disease, Public Awareness and Public Education
October 27, 2013