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Small Philippines Town Creates Innovative Disaster Warning System

Find more Earth Focus content at https://www.linktv.org/earthfocusOnce nearly wiped out by a landslide, a town in the Philippines finds a new way to manage natural disasters. More than 70 percent of St. Bernard and the surrounding area are highly vulnerable to flash floods, tsunamis, storms, and landslides, but there was no warning system in place until […]

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Community-Based Landslide Early Warning System

R3ADY Asia-Pacific, in collaboration with University of Gadjah Mada (UGM), Pacific Disaster Center (PDC), and University of Hawai’i’s Social Science Research Institute (SSRI), is working to develop an end-to-end framework that better links community-based and national disaster risk reduction efforts, using UGM’s community-based landslide risk assessment and landslide early warning system as the case study.

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UNDP- CIRDA Programme: Benin’s Early Warning System

Acces to climate information is a vital aspect of adaptation planning, particularly when it comes to creating life saving early warning systems. UNDP is working with countries like Benin in enhacing national capacities to collect and analyse relevant climate and weather data and communicate it to local populations. Benin’s work in delevloping an effective early

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