Costa Rica early warning system for hydrometeorological hazards project
Project development for early warning systems in Costa Rica.
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Americas
Southern Mexico—Earthquakes, Tectonics, & Earthquake Early Warning
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. That earthquake prompted Mexico to develop an earthquake alert system for all of Southern Mexico. This animation describes the tectonic and geologic process
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Nueva directiva en gestion de riesgos de desastres: Peru
Entrevista con la Dra. Blanca Arostegui sobre la nueva directiva en gestion de riesgos de desastres en Peru
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Aid Failure – Lessons Learned From Haiti?
The event draws upon the online Policy Debate on the failure of the aid system in Haiti http://poldev.revues.org/1606 published by the journal International Development Policy http://devpol.org/ (DevPol). Each speaker briefly presents their reflections before inviting the audience to participate. Speakers:Jean-Marc Biquet, (MSF | CERAH)Andrea Binder (GPPi)Elyse Mosquini (Disaster Law Programme, IFRC) Moderator:Prof Gilles Carbonnier (Graduate Institute) You can join
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Aid to Haiti: legal challenges
Legal challenges learned after Haiti earthquake
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Red Cross Disaster Action Team
On April 4, 2014 Nine Academy participants screened their digital stories. In this video, Nine Community Producer Lea Braff explores a Red Cross Disaster Action Team. By pulling back the curtain of this globally reaching humanitarian organization, we catch a glimpse of the methods and procedures of the staff and volunteers of this important life
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Trinidad & Tobago Red Cross Society – Community Disaster Response
Disaster Preparedness Response in rural Communities.
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Introduction to Climate Change Adaptation
These are the lecture videos from the free UBC course Climate Literacy: Navigating Climate Change Conversations, which tackles the scientific and socio-political dimensions of climate change. This course introduces the basics of the climate system, models and predictions, human and natural impacts, mitigative and adaptive responses, and the evolution of climate policy. This course formed
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Adaptation Strategies for Climate Change
These are the lecture videos from the free UBC course Climate Literacy: Navigating Climate Change Conversations, which tackles the scientific and socio-political dimensions of climate change. This course introduces the basics of the climate system, models and predictions, human and natural impacts, mitigative and adaptive responses, and the evolution of climate policy. This course formed
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Participatory Video on climate change and disaster preparedness, Belize
Location: Stann Creek, BelizeIn September 2012, the Belizian Red Cross helped facilitate a group of community members and volunteers in Stann Creek District, Southern Belize, to produce a participatory video to inspire community preparedness in the context of climate change. The community producers did 10 interviews in three different villages featuring local stories on disasters, the
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